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From: brad@SSD.CSD.HARRIS.COM (Brad Appleton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: more on TRUE and FALSE (side-comment)
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Date: 17 Sep 90 13:44:57 GMT
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In article <quan.653570879@sol> quan@sol.surv.utas.oz (Stephen Quan) writes:
>Personally I hate 'writing' programs with :
>
>  if (strcmp(name,"hippo")==0) ....
>
>I know 'strcmp(a,b)' is designed to return 3 types of value :
>-ve : a comes before b.
>  0 : a equals b.
>+ve : a comes after b.
>
>but it drives me balmy (not completely balmy though!) all the same.
>
>Anyone got a cure?  At the moment I'm trying DIET COKE!

It may not be terribly readable, but i use:

	if ( !strcmp(s1, s2) )  { ... }

To test for equality!!

Ive also seen (but dont use) the following:

#define  strEQ(s1,s2)  !strcmp(s1,s2)
#define  strNE(s1,s2)  strcmp(s1,s2)
#define  strLT(s1,s2)  ( strcmp(s1,s2) < 0 )
#define  strGT(s1,s2)  ( strcmp(s1,s2) > 0 )

(and similar stuff for strncmp too!)

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