Comparing strings...

[Andrew Koenig]

In article <3330 at idunno.Princeton.EDU>, pfalstad at 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.
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				--Andrew Koenig
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