Thread: Reading + socket communication

Below I would like to enter the characters "s1p1" into a remote terminal once the server has connected to the client and print the respective statement locally. The problem I am having when I want to write "s1p1" is that if i press s, the program processes s, but when I press "1" the program no longer has the s stored.
The program performs actions to single characters successfully as shown by the second enclosed if statement.

Code:

int sock_fd;
int new_fd;
int rc;
char recv_client_msg[100];

rc=read(new_fd, recv_client_msg,sizeof(recv_client_msg));

if(rc>0)
 {
   if(strcmp(recv_client_msg,"s1p1")==0){printf("s1p1\n");}
   if(recv_client_msg[0]=="s"){printf("m\n");}
 }

Any suggestions?
I assume the solution will involve somewhere an array and a for loop with incrementation.
Before anyone suggests changing "strcmp" this is NOT the issue and the issure is storing the characters without overwriting them.

Any help would be appreciated.

got it sorted by reading bytes, what could I write if I made the program do a action locally whilst the remote terminal was open for it to pront on the remote terminal that something has been changed locally?

for example if I pressed a key on the remote terminal to tun a light off. I would like the program to in fact check that its off, and report to the user by printing on the REMOTE CLIENT TERMINAL "light off". Similarly if i told the light to turn on/off remotely but the command wasn't executed properly for it to display a different message to the remote user such as "command failed"

Also say if you had the remote terminal open and you saw that the light was off, if i then turned it on locally via a button or something else, a notice would appear on your remote terminal saying the light has been turned on