Please help me code an if statement in 'C' for Arduino

djsfantasi said:

If you were to execute the line "Serial.print(myString.substring(5))" and myString was "abcdefghij" would you expect a pointer value or "ghij"?

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I would expect, based on other object-oriented languages, for the compiler to implicitly invoke a ToString method of some kind on the string object returned by the myString.substring(5) call.

I'm saying that myString.substring(5), for instance, returns a reference to a string object that consists of one character if myString has six characters and it returns a reference to a string object that consists of multiple characters if it has more than six. Look at the examples in the Arduino reference.

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That's what I would expect, too. So I would not expect making an equality comparison between an ASCII value to either to yield a True result. Unless, and this is certainly possible, the equality operator is overloaded such that when comparing an integer to a String object the integer value is boxed and converted to a String.

Overall, it seems like the Arduino language is putting a lot of overhead onto a poor microcontroller.