c: string entered not recognised [duplicate] - c

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Given below is a piece of code that does not do what I want
do
{
printf("inserisci un nome: ");
scanf("%29s", s);
} while (s!="*");
My aim is to exit from the cycle if the string entered is "*".
Why doesn't it work?
What should I modify?

Take a look at strcmp to compare strings, != will not do what you want.
In that case != will compare the variable s (a pointer to the first element of the array s) with the string "*". That is why it was not working properly.

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