[Solved] C language, Hangman game, if question, “char” and “char*” operand issue when comparing answer(the user input) == word(hangman word) [closed]

Question

First off, you were using the strcpy_s function wrong, you didn’t give the length of the string. So I changed it like;

strcpy_s(mask, m, word[x]);

And also, the format specifier we’re going to use while getting a string from the user will be %s like;

scanf_s("%s", &answer);

Finally, I prefer using strcmp function to compare two strings, if these strings are equal then the result would be 0, so the if statement changes like;

if (strcmp(&answer, word[x]) == 0)

EDIT: Ok so if you can’t use the if statement with the input from the user, we can get the input, copy that into another string and then compare these two strings. So I fixed it like;

char answer[m];
char c;
//loop w counter
int counter;
for (counter = 1; counter < 11; counter++) {
    scanf_s("%s", &c);
    strcpy(answer, &c);

    if (strcmp(answer, word[x]) == 0)
    {
        printf("\nYou win! The answer was: %s", word[x]);
        return 0;
    }

We get an input with c, copy the string into an answer array, BTW I’m not sure about its size so you can modify it, and then compare these two strings in the strcmp function.

EDIT: We don’t need another string and copy that into an array, instead, we can directly get the array from the user and just compare it with the word[x]. So here’s the latest version:

char answer[ARRAY_SIZE];
//loop w counter
int counter;
for (counter = 1; counter < 11; counter++) {
    scanf_s("%s", &answer);
    if (strcmp(answer, word[x]) == 0)
    {
        printf("\nYou win! The answer was: %s", word[x]);
        return 0;
    }

Accepted Answer