read, save and compare arrays

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Hi, I am currently doing some serial communication program.
As for the part to read from the Serial.read and save it in an array, I've managed to do it.

let say, if we send 'ms1'

 if (Serial.available() > 0) // if new data is available, repeat this loop until Serial.available= 0
        { 
           inByte = Serial.read(); // Read new byte
           //Serial.print("READ : "); // Display the new byte
           stringx[string_len] = inByte; // Save the data in a character array
          // Serial.println(string[string_len]); // Print the characters that was recieved. -1 so that we would not read the '>' end string
           string_len++;  //add array  
          
    }

on this line, stringx will have 'ms1'.

As usual, if I want to check the array, one of the ways are doing like:

     if(stringx[0]=='m'){
        if(stringx[1]=='s'){   // if received 'm','s'
             if(stringx[2]=='1'){  //if received 'm','s','1'
             Serial.println("main switch is on");
             } 
             
             else if(stringx[2]=='0'){  //if received 'm','s','0'
             Serial.println("main switch is off");
              blinkLED(ledPin, 2, 200); // blinkLED(ledPin, times, delay);
             }
        }

which will check whether 'ms1' has received.

Is it possible for me to use something simple like this?

 for(char i=0; i<(string_len-1); i++)   // this function copies and combine all the char

   if(stringx=="ms1"){
       Serial.println ("success!");   //put a new line
        }

So I can compare all the string is stringx array, with the char that I wanted.

With above code, it gives me an error. Any simpler options also would be good.

Thank you.

2

Use strcmp?

3

Use strcmp?

Use strcmp!

4

Thanks both of you.

 if (strcmp(stringx, "ms1>")  == 0)  // test to see if the two strings are equal
   {
       Serial.println ("success!");   //put a new line
   }