Comparing c strings to char using strcmp

Question

I'm trying to count spaces using c strings. I can't use std strings. And on the line comparing the two chars I get the error 'invalid conversion from 'char' to 'const char*'.

I understand that I need to compare two const chars* but I'm not sure which one is which. I believe sentence[] is the char and char space[] is const char* is that right? And I need to use some sort of casting to convert the second but I'm not understanding the syntax I guess. Thanks for the help <3

int wordCount(char sentence[])
{
    int tally = 0;
    char space[2] = " ";

    for(int i = 0; i > 256; i++)
    {
        if (strcmp(sentence[i], space) == 0)
        {
            tally++
        }
    }

    return tally;
}

Answer 1

strcmp is used to compare two character strings not a single character with one character string.

there is no function: strcmp(char c, char*); // if there's it's illogical!

if you want to search for a single character in a character string just compare this character with all elements using iteration:

iint wordCount(char* sentence)
{
    int tally = 0;
    char space[2] = " ";

    for(int i = 0; i < strlen(sentence); i++)
    {
        if (sentence[i] == space[0])
        {
            tally++;
        }
    }

    return tally;
}