Does anyone know how to compare a old style character string with a character in qoutes? Example:
I want to compare the first character in a record that is stored in an old style character string with a "*". Here's what I have in my code:

char FirstCharacter[1]; // Character string to hold to value found by
the peek() function

OutputFile.seekp(Total * 60);
//Seek to the correct position

FirstCharacter[0] = OutputFile.peek();
//FirstCharacter set equal to peek()

if (FirstCharacter[0] == "*")
{
cout << "Dummy Record";
}
//Try to compare value stored in FirstCharacter with a "*". If it is true, I know that I can write my record there.

It will not compare the string like it is. I get the error "Cannot convert char to char*". I tried strcmp() also, but to no avail. I get the error message "Cannot find a match for strcmp(char, char*). Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks a lot.

>char FirstCharacter[1]; // Character string to hold to value found by
This must be an empty string or it cannot be a string at all. C-style strings require a null character at the end as a terminator. You would really be better off just using a single char.

>if (FirstCharacter[0] == "*")
You don't compare strings with the == operator. Include <cstring> and do this:
Of course, this assumes that you fix the first problem and FirstCharacter actually is a null terminated string. You can do it like this:
The "= {0}" part guarantees that a null character is placed in FirstCharacter[1]. But, as I said before, it's better to just use a character to begin with:
Or even better:
That avoids the need to even use a temporary variable.

Thank you. The "OutputFile.peek() == '*' " worked great. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I thought I had to store the value found with the peek() function.