Please can anyone tell me what is wrong with my program? for all cases it is displaying not identical

Question

#include <iostream> // program to check for identical strings
using namespace std;

int checkstring(char a[],char b[])
{
for(int i = 0;a[i]!='/0'&& b[i]!='/0';i++)
{
if(a[i]!= b[i])
{
return -1; //if the strings are not identical then return -1 is executed and
} program terminates returning -1 which 'x' of main would capture

}
return 0; // the flow of control comes to return 0 only if the strings are identical
}
int main(void)
{
char a[100]; char b[100];
cout<<"enter the first string"<<endl;cin.getline(a,100);
cout<<"Enter the second string"<<endl;cin.getline(b,100);
int x = checkstring(a,b);
if(x==-1)
{
cout<<"not identical";
}
if (x==0)
{
cout<<"identical";
}
return 0;
}

Answer 1

Thats a '\0' that you need to use for comparision, not a '/0'...

Change your loop's test condition to :

a[i]!='\0' && b[i]!='\0'

Answer 2

Once again i forgot to replace / by \. Thanks for pointing out..