Thread: Trying to compare to strings...

No matter what the strings are this program always reads them as different strings...

Code:

#include <iostream>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>


int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{

  char string1[20], string2[20];
  
  cout<<"Input 2 strings. This program will tell you if the 2\n strings are excactly the same  ";
  
  cin.getline(string1, 20);
  cout<<'\n';
  cin.getline(string2, 20);
  
  cout<<"The 2 strings you entered were "<<string1<<" and "<<string2<<'\n';
 
 strcmp(string1, string2);
  
  
      if(string1 == string2)
       {
         cout<<"The two strings you entered are the same";
       }
  
      if(string1 != string2)
       {
        cout<<"The two strings you entered are not the same";
       }
    
  system("PAUSE");	
  return 0;
}

Can someone explain why this isnt working and what i need to do to get it to work? Thankyou.