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From: gordon@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (John Gordon)
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Subject: Re: Comparing strings...
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Date: 13 Oct 90 19:01:06 GMT
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	Hmmm... Well, here's what I came up with:

int compare_strings(char s1[], char s2[])
{
  int i;

  for(i = 0; s1[i] && s2[i]; i++)
  {
    if(s1[i] > s2[i])
      return(S1_BIGGER);
    else if(s1[i] < s2[i])
      return(S2_BIGGER)
  }

  /* if we got to here, s1 and s2 are either equal or equal up to a NULL */

  if(strlen(s1) > strlen(s2))
    return(S1_BIGGER);
  else if(strlen(s1) < strlen(s2))
    return(S2_BIGGER);
  else
    return(EQUAL); 
}

  If there are stupid syntactical errors in the code, I apologize.  I just
sat down and wrote it.


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