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From: jh4o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jeffrey T. Hutzelman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: more on TRUE and FALSE (side-comment)
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Date: 17 Sep 90 14:00:24 GMT
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Try

if (!strcmp(name,"hippo"))

It works, although it's a bit confusing to those who don't know that
strcmp() returns 0 for equal and non-0 for unequal.

Or, write a macro:

#define strequ(a,b) !strcmp(a,b)
if (strequ(name,hippo))
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