Error Reading Characters of String

[Jdog17]

I am currently using command line inputs in conjunction with several hardware inputs from my io ousb board...

I am trying to execute code where my second command-line argument, 'c1' ,'c2' 'c3' or 'c4' executes the next part of my code that I've written. However, when I run the code, It only reads 'c', not 'c1'. Through debugging, it says there is an error in reading the characters of the string.

below is a segment of my code:

if (argc == 3)
{
char * choice = argv[2];




//cout << argv[2][0] << endl;
if (choice == "C1")
{
if (ReadPinC() > PortADC())
{
mainResult = ReadPinC();
printBinaryReverse(check_result(mainResult));
WritePortB(check_result(mainResult));
}
else if (PortADC() > ReadPinC())
{
mainResult = PortADC();
printBinaryReverse(check_result(mainResult));
WritePortB(check_result(mainResult));
}
return 0;
}

else if (choice == "c2")
{

[lastchance]

Make choice a std::string if you want to compare with ==

[Jdog17]

Thanks, could you explain to me why this is so? I'm still fairly new to c++ and coding in general

[lastchance]

Each operator, like ==, has to be defined for its operands and no such operation is built into the standard for C-strings (your char[] arrays): for those you could use the strcmp() function to compare two C-strings, but it is more messy.

std::string is a well-defined class to hold character sequences that behaves naturally and has comparison-for-equality operations (==) defined for it, as well as the convenience of building up strings with a + operation.

For more detail see:
http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/string/string/

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