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From: ark@alice.att.com (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Comparing strings...
Message-ID: <11486@alice.att.com>
Date: 14 Oct 90 13:38:05 GMT
References: <1990Oct13.190106.15615@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <3330@idunno.Princeton.EDU>
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In article <3330@idunno.Princeton.EDU>, pfalstad@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Paul John Falstad) writes:

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

Whether or not this works depends on your definition of the problem.
If you really want to follow the normal lexical convention that
the null string compares <= anything else, and you're on a machine
on which chars can be negative, then it doesn't work.
-- 
				--Andrew Koenig
				  ark@europa.att.com