Re: String Comparision

Default User wrote:

user34 wrote:


I did not retype the code !
Here it is once again (without any of the above suggested
improvements)and it still shows me the same error!

#include<stdio.h>

int comp(char *s,char *t)
{
for(;*s==*t;s++,t++);
^
That semicolon doesn't belong.

Or maybe it did. Either way, it's not going to work.

If you leave the semicolon in, then if the strings are identical then
you read off the end of each into memory that might not belong to the
strings, or memory that had never been initialized. At any rate, it
will report a false mismatch, because it will continue that until
there's a difference.



Brian
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