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From: [e-mail] (Kurt Watzka)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: help with strcmp
Date: 2 Apr 1996 21:00:51 GMT
Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)
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Lawrence Kirby <[e-mail]> writes:

>In article <4jr75p$[e-mail]>
>           [e-mail] "Kurt Watzka" writes:

>>strcmp() and strncmp() are designed to handle C strings, so they know how
>>to treat '\0' in a string. Otherwise
>>
>>   int STRCMP(const char *s1, const char *s2)
>>   {
>>      size_t sz1 = strlen(s1), sz2 = strlen(s2);
>>      return strncpm(s1, s2, sz1 < sz2 ? sz1 : sz2);
>>   }

>Do you have suppressed yearnings for obsolete OSs? ;-)

Yes, esp. in the afternoon when it is too late for coffee and to
early for tea.

>>would be a common replacement for the then useless strcmp() function.

>Not quite, it would compare "A" and "AB" as equal.

That is exactly my point. If strcmp() would not knowe how to deal
with a '\0' in a string, comparing strings of different lenght
would be difficult, no matter how large the buffers that hold the
two strings are.

Kurt
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