c: string entered not recognised

Question

Given below is a piece of code that does not do what I want

do
{
    printf("inserisci un nome: ");
    scanf("%29s", s);
} while (s!="*");

My aim is to exit from the cycle if the string entered is "*". Why doesn't it work? What should I modify?

Cacho Santa · Accepted Answer · 2015-07-19T00:28:13.803

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Take a look at strcmp to compare strings, != will not do what you want.

In that case != will compare the variable s (a pointer to the first element of the array s) with the string "*". That is why it was not working properly.

edited Jul 19 '15 at 00:28

answered Jul 14 '15 at 17:55

Cacho Santa

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thanks, now it work! – StackUser Jul 14 '15 at 17:57
glad I could help :D @iuTub – Cacho Santa Jul 14 '15 at 17:59
if this answer helped, could you marked as the accepted answer? @IuTub – Cacho Santa Jul 14 '15 at 18:23

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