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String equality tester (See related posts)

If you want to test the equality of two strings and don't want the overhead of strcmp(), then this is the function for you.
_Bool strequals(char* a, char* b) {
 if (!a || !b) return 0;
 do {if (*a != *b) return 0; } while (*a++ && *b++);
 return 1;
}
to c strings comparison by Minimiscience on Wed Jul 04 23:22:26 -0400 2007

Comments on this post

gciutac posts on Aug 03, 2007 at 08:09
What will happen in case of two different lenght strings like:
"mystring" and
"mystring2"? I thing it will return also true even the strings are not
tpicot posts on Aug 06, 2007 at 06:02
No.. it will work fine. However, "the overhead of strcmp" is dubious, I'd take a punt that this would be slower than the one provided by the library.

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