Comparison between pointer & integer

[m88g88]

Hello!

I am trying to create a loop that searches a struct array for the value of 'remove' (which is a char).

Struct:

typedef struct
{
    char track[99];
    char trackname[99]; 
    char artist[99];
    char genre[99];
}   song; //creates a struct called song;

song songs[99];

Code to search for a track name:

           int i;
                    for(i=0;i<99;i++)

                    {
                        if(*songs[i].trackname == remove)
    	                {	
                             printf("found it");
                            }
    	                }
                    }

The problem is that I am told 'comparison between pointer and integer'. I could remove the '*', but will then be told 'comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast'.

I am assuming that 'song[i] and trackname are variable types that cannot be compared? I don't really know what the '*' does, but I saw it on some site discussing this problem so thought I might try it lol.

[itCbitC]

need to use strcmp() for comparing strings!

[cas]

You shouldn't name something “remove”, as that's the name of a standard function. It sounds to me like the comparison is using the standard remove, and not yours, according to the error messages. Of course, without a complete program I'm only left guessing.

[m88g88]

I didn't realise 'remove' is a standard function, so have renamed it to 'aremove'. I called it that because once I get this working, I want to try change it so that it can remove a song in the struct.

How would the strcmp() be used? I didn't know I was comparing strings lol.

[Elysia]

I don't know how remove is declared, so I cannot say if it's a string or not. Anyway, strcmp is used like this:
strcmp(str1, str2)
It returns 0 if the strings are equal.

[m88g88]

strcmp(songs[i], aremove)==0;

And I am told 'incompatible type for argument 1 of 'strcmp'.

FYI, this is the declaration of 'aremove' (other variables have been deleted to make this shorter).

int main(void)

{
    system("color f5");
    
    int  aremove;

I could paste the code, but it's 137 lines and I'm not sure if it would be a pain to go through.