[Warning] comparison between pointer and integer

[Creese]

I'm new to coding and this is the first code I've tried by myself. I keep getting this error [Warning] comparison between pointer and integer. Can anyone help me?

#include <stdio.h>
#include <conio.h>
int main(void)
{
    int sum;
    int sum2;
    int sum3;
    int sum4;
    int sum5;
    char name;
    char france;
    char texas;
    char canada;
    char mexico;
    char houston;
 
    printf("What is your name?");
    scanf("%s", &name);
    printf("Hello, %s.\n", &name);
    getch();
 
    printf("%s, please answer the following questions: 1+1=", &name);
                scanf("%d", &sum);
                if (sum == 2)
                   {printf("Correct. Now try this one. 6+11=");}
                   else
                   {printf("Incorrect. The answer was 2. Now try this one. 6+11=");}
                         scanf("%d", &sum2);
                         if(sum2 == 17)
                         {printf("Correct. Now try this one. 8+2=");}
                         else
                         {printf("Incorrect. The answer was 17. Now try this one. 8+2=");}
                                             scanf("%d", &sum4);
                                             if (sum4 == 10)
                                             {printf("Correct. This is the last one. I bet you wont get this one. 999+999=");}
                                             else
                                             {printf("Incorrect. The answer was 10. This is the last one. I bet you wont get this one. 999+999=");}
                                                                 scanf("%d", &sum5);
                                                                 if(sum5 == 1998)
                                                                 {printf("Correct. Wow, you are smart.\n What is the capital of France?");}
                                                                 else
                                                                 {printf("It was 1998...Told you you wouldn't get it.\n What is the capital of France?");}
                 scanf("%s", &france);
                             if (france == "paris")
                             {printf("Nice. Try this one. What is the capital of Texas");}
                                            else
                             {printf("Sorry but %s was wrong.The correct answer was Paris. Try this one. What is the capital of Texas", france);}
 
 
    getch();
    }
 

As you can see I have unused variables. I can't continue until i get this figured out.

[Creese]

I got

        if (france = "paris")
                             {printf("Nice. Try this one. What is the capital of Texas");}

to work

[Warning] assignment makes integer from pointer without a cast.
and this part doesn't work:

  else
                             {printf("Sorry but %s was wrong.The correct answer was Paris. Try this one. What is the capital of Texas", france);}
 

when I get it wrong it still puts the if statement

[YarrOfDoom]

I wouldn't really call that "getting it to work" as you're just trying to assign "paris" to france, you're not comparing them to each other.

I think it might help if you read up a bit on null-terminated character arrays. [link]
Perhaps you should also check out the assignment and equality operators again. [link]

[Creese]

How do you do a if statement with it. I cant find it anywhere and i tried to do it myself and this is how it turned out.

[Banfa]

You need to read up on the C string library which uses the header string.h [link]

[Creese]

i looked at the link and i still dont understand

[Banfa]

Did you bother to follow any of the linked and read about any of the functions listed?

[Creese]

yes and it helped alot. Thanks