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Why doesen't it clear screen in if method (C language only)

I was trying to make a shell interpreter similar to DOS in C language (for fun obviously)

And when i type clear, as shown in the code below it should make it so it clears the screen. But it doesn't.

    #include <stdio.h>
    #include <stdlib.h>
    #include <conio.h>
    char command[128];
    int loop = 0;
    void main(){
        clrscr();
        printf("Starting shell\n");
        clrscr();
        while ( loop == 0){
            printf("command:");
            scanf("%s", &command);
            if(command=='clear'){
                printf("Clearing screen");
                clrscr();
            }  

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Solution 
  • if(command=='clear')

    it's not valid string comparison. use strcmp to compare string in C.

    It should be

    if (!strcmp(command, "clear"))
{
   printf("Clearing screen");
   clrscr();
}