Re: XForms: strcmp

From: Robin (robin.4@osu.edu)
Date: Thu Nov 23 2000 - 18:07:15 EST

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    Clive,

    Clive A Stubbings wrote:

    > # To subscribers of the xforms list from Clive A Stubbings <xforms@vjet.demon.co.uk> :
    >
    > Hmm...
    >
    > > # To subscribers of the xforms list from joel <joel@dabbles-n-doodads.com> :
    > >
    > > Actually, I'm looking for an empty string not if a pointer is null. So,
    > > strcmp(string,"") works fine. I'm not sure why NULL works under
    >
    > No wonder we all need GHz CPUs these days...
    >
    > How about
    >
    > if (*string == '\0')....
    >

        No, this won't work either. Don't confuse address with the actual characters.
    What that x_form function returns is that the _adrress_ of the object is null. Here u are
    comparing that, the actual character pointed to by the address is nulbyte. So these are 2
    different things.

    --Rob

    >
    > which is probably 10 times faster ;-)
    >
    > Cheers
    > Clive
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