trouble with strcmp

[drwbns]

so after trying awhile to compare a const char* to a string, I read that I'm supposed to compare using the strcmp method. But I'm still not getting a correct comparison to a string. While debugging, my text values look fine so I'm stumped. I'm trying to compare values in my std::map like so -

	for(std::map<Vector3DInt32,const char*>::iterator i = polys.begin(); i != polys.end(); i++) {
		if(strcmp((*i).second,"Neighbor") == 0)  mywindow->appendText("[colour='FFFF0000']");
		else  mywindow->appendText("[colour='FFFFFFFF']");
		mywindow->appendText("{ ");
		mywindow->appendText(Ogre::StringConverter::toString(Vector3((*i).first.getX(),(*i).first.getY(),(*i).first.getZ())));
		mywindow->appendText(" }, ");
	}

I also tried using std::string and then comparing using

if((*i).second.compare("Neighbor") == 0)

but that is failing also...
P.S. where is the code tag button?