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I am trying to write a program that stops with a specific string input

I am just starting to learn C coding ,I am trying to write a program that keeps scanning names and once it scans a specific name lets say for example "John" it stops Please correct me

#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
    char name[20];
    printf("enter a name:");
    for(;;)
    {
        scanf("%s",name);
        if (name='John')
        {
            break;
        }

    }
Solution

  • You can't compare two string pointers with != or ==. you need to use strcmp, for example:

    while (strcmp(check,input) != 0)

    strcmp compares the string pointed to, by str1 to the string pointed to by str2.