I have an assignment to write an application and build the circuit for a system based on the 8051 with keypad and LCD interfacing where the user enters a password, if the password matches the one stored then the LCD will display CORRECT. So far so good, the only bugger is that regardless of the password I input the password is always recognized as 'incorrect'.


Which leads me to the question: Is possible in Keil to compare two char array variables as follows?

//if user inputted password is not equal to the saved password then it's incorrect		  
if (password[cnt2] != passINP[cnt2]);	  
{
flag = 0;
}

 

Obviously this code snippet is within a for loop in my code. 'passINP' is a char array where I'm storing each keypress the user does on a keypad and 'password' is another char array where I'm storing a predefined password (12345678 in this case, each element holds a number). 'flag' is a bit variable where it's declared as 1 by default.

Any help will be appreciated...(please no big spoon feeding, else it's not fun :) ) Thanks in advance.


Kai