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From: jimli@blake.acs.washington.edu (Jimmy Li)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: compare strings, strcmp
Keywords: strcmp,strings
Message-ID: <4463@blake.acs.washington.edu>
Date: 15 Nov 89 21:00:55 GMT
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Organization: Univ of Washington, Seattle
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I wanted to know what is the best way to compare two strings?
For example, I have the following decl.

char array[10000][200];

What is the fastest way to sort this array? (I heard that 'strcmp' is slow
if the strings are long. Why?)

Thanks a lot.