Re: Comparing string input to enum data type

On Feb 27, 10:17 pm, Keith Thompson <k...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
"Bill Pursell" <bill.purs...@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

if( 0 == strncmp("red", a, sizeof "red") )
c = red;
else if ...

Why not just strcmp("red", a)?

Just a general tendency to refrain from using
strcmp. In this case, since one of the strings is
fixed, there's no security issue with strcmp (until
the code maintainer modifies the code...),
but I believe it's a good habit to use the strncmp
variant.

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