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From: userAKDU@mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA (Al Dunbar)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Comparing strings...
Message-ID: <1693@mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA>
Date: 15 Oct 90 04:15:14 GMT
References: <2205.271700c2@cc.nu.oz.au>
Organization: MTS Univ of Alberta
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In article <2205.271700c2@cc.nu.oz.au>, v8902058@cc.nu.oz.au writes:
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>
>Hello...
>
>        I'm sorry if this is a trival task, but I would like a function that
>compares two strings.  I would like to be able to find if a string is equal to,
>less than, or greater than another string.  I tried writing a routinue myself,
>but I just can't seem to do it, so I thought I'd ask.
>
>        I wouldn't mind some code, or just the basic algorithm maybe.
>
>        If anyone can help me, please email or post...
>
>Thanks.
>
>Bernard.
 
If you have a C compiler, you probably already have such a
function; just #include <string.h> and then use routines
such as strcmp, stricmp, and strncmp as probably defined
in the manual.
 
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