Understanding Char Array equality in C

Question

Sorry in advance for the ignorance. I don\'t fully understand how to compare char arrays in C. I was originally comparing two char arrays in c with the simple ==

Answer 1

Doing this if (a == b) will compare Pointer values stored in a and b.

So if you have a

  a //say at some random address 1000 

or b

  b //say at some random address 2000 

Is a==b? Now normally if the compiler is doing string pooling and if your string literals are exactly same then this may work in those cases - otherwise you have to do a character-by-character comparison as strcmp would i guess.