trouble with strcpy

[blue8173]

Hi, I'm having trouble with the strcpy function:

In my program, I'm trying to see if the last character of the a character string, called charstring, is a backslash.

    char ch = charstring[strlen(charstring)-1];
    
    if (strcmp(ch, "/") == 0) {
    	cout << "ok" << endl;
    }

I get this error when I compile this:

invalid conversion from `char' to `const char*'

I've tried creating pointers, but it still outputs the same error.
Does anyone have any ideas why this is happening?

Thanks

[chrismiceli]

ch is a character, only one, not a string. If you want to check if it is a backslash, you should do this

if(ch == '\\')
/* do stuff */

and this is a c forum, not c++.

[praveen_23]

since the strcmp takes two parameters which are "const char *", so u cant pass the normal characters to it.

bye
Praveen

[Brian]

Originally posted by praveen_23
since the strcmp takes two parameters which are "const char *", so u cant pass the normal characters to it.

bye
Praveen

you can compare individual characters just like comparing numbers (since that's all it is).

char foo = 'x';

if (foo == 'x') {
	printf("Golly, foo equals 'x'\n");
} else {
	printf("Something wrong here.\n");
}

or even better:

char bar[] = "Hello\\";

if (bar[strlen(bar) - 1] == '\\') {
	printf("Bar ends in a backslash\n");
}