C String Comparison: Debugging Error - "Hello" Output

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I am trying to compare a computer generated word to display the following however, when Quit is entered it produces the output "Hello". What is my error in the code?

Code:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

int main(void) {
   char userString[50];

   strcpy(userString, "Quit");

   /* Your solution goes here  */
if (strcpy(userString,"Quit")==0){
   printf("Goodbye\n");
}
else {
   printf("Hello\n");
}
   return 0;
}
 
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On an ANSI-compliant system, strcmp(const char *str1, const char *str2) returns 0 if the strings str1 and str2 are identical.

Try

Code:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

int main(void) {
		char userString[50];

		strcpy(userString, "Quit");

		/* Your solution goes here */

		if (strcmp(userString, "Quit") == 0){
			printf("Goodbye\n");
		}
		else {
			printf("Hello\n");
		}

		return 0;
}

The function strcpy(char *destination, char *source) returns a pointer to the destination string: a non-zero value.

*Note: you may post formatted source code by enclosing the source code in [code]...[/code] tags.