Compare equality of char[] in C

by 
char charTime[] = "TIME"; char buf[] = "SOMETHINGELSE";

C++ and C (remove std:: for C):

bool equal = (std::strcmp(charTime, buf) == 0);

But the true C++ way:

std::string charTime = "TIME", buf = "SOMETHINGELSE";
bool equal = (charTime == buf);

Using == does not work because it tries to compare the addresses of the first character of each array (obviously, they do not equal). It won’t compare the content of both arrays.

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