If(strcmp(str, "") == 0) - What does this line of code mean?

[julia234]

Hi, I am a student and learning C programming. There two things I don't understand in this function:

"if(strcmp(str, "") == 0)" - what is the string compared to, what exactly does "" mean in this case and

strlen(str) + 1) - why is +1 counted?

Thank you!


void UserInput(char **arr, int *len)
{
char str[300];


for(int i = 0; i<300;++i)
{
if(fgets(str, 300, stdin) == NULL)
break;


str[strcspn(str, "\r\n")] = 0;


if(strcmp(str, "") == 0)
continue;

arr = strcpy((char *) malloc(sizeof(char) * strlen(str) + 1), str);
++(*len);
}


}