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As always, RTFM before using a function. Even the C standard is blatantly clear over how strcmp() behaves: The strcmp function returns an integer greater than, equal to, or less than zero, accordingly as the string pointed to by s1 is greater than, equal to, or less than the string pointed to by s2. That's it, no further guarantees. –
The strcmp() and strncmp() functions return an integer less than, equal to, or greater than zero if s1 (or the first n bytes thereof) is found, respectively, to be less than, to match, or be greater than s2.
The strcmp function returns an integer greater than, equal to, or less than zero, accordingly as the string pointed to by s1 is greater than, equal to, or less than the string pointed to by s2. Not only can code find if the strings are of the same data, but which one is greater/less when they differ.
fgets will return a string which ends with a newline (\n).From its documentation. Reads characters from stream and stores them as a C string into str until (num-1) characters have been read or either a newline or the end-of-file is reached, whichever happens first.
According to the C Standard (7.23.4.2 The strcmp function) 3 The strcmp function returns an integer greater than, equal to, or less than zero , accordingly as the string pointed to by s1 is greater than, equal to, or less than the string pointed to by s2.
Further, strcmp() returns results as if each char was converted to unsigned char, regardless if char is signed or unsigned. tolower(*a); // Potential UB tolower((unsigned char) *a); // Correct (Almost - see following)
The sole difference with modern libcs between memcmp and strcmp is that strcmp has to check whether it has to stop, which takes a little more time than only comparing bytes. I have personally benchmarked this and only measured a difference of ~10% in speed between memcmp and strcmp
7.23.4.2 The strcmp function 2 The strcmp function compares the string pointed to by s1 to the string pointed to by s2. says that, obviously, strings are compared, and: 7.1.1 Definitions of terms 1 A string is a contiguous sequence of characters terminated by and including the first null character.
In C there is a switch construct which enables one to execute different conditional branches of code based on an test integer value, e.g., int a; /* Read the value of "a" from some source...
Normally strcmp is used with two arguments [e.g. strcmp(str1,"garden")], and it will return 0 if both are the same. Is it possible to compare part of the input, say the first five character of the...