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From: pfalstad@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Paul John Falstad)
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Subject: Re: Comparing strings...
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Date: 13 Oct 90 22:51:40 GMT
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In article <qDwZq1w161w@fozzie.pheonix.com> stanley@fozzie.pheonix.com (John Stanley) writes:
>gordon@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (John Gordon) writes:
>> 	Hmmm... Well, here's what I came up with:
>   Did I miss something, or is everyone overlooking the library functions
>strcmp and strncmp that are already provided to do this?

You're not missing anything.  You're just the only one who bothered to
post the obvious.

Here's a better implementation of strcmp, by the way: (not that it
matters, since it's in the library)

int strcmp(char *s,char *t)
{
	for (; *s && *s == *t; s++,t++);
	return *s-*t;
}

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