Re: C (functional programming) VS C++ (object oriented programming)

jacob navia wrote:

santosh wrote:
jacob navia wrote:

Richard Heathfield wrote:
jacob navia said:
H. is arguing that strncmp is not a string comparison function.
Heathfield
That's right.
[snip]

Yes, I agree that it's a comparison function. So what?

OK. I give up.

Are you really saying you don't know the difference between a comparison
function and string comparison function?

The crucial difference between strcmp and strncmp is that the former
_needs_ it's arguments to be null-terminated strings while the latter
doesn't. There is a crucial difference between an array of characters,
(which needn't, but could be, a string), and a string.


Look:

1) The standard names EXPLICITELY strncmp a "comparison functions" in
the section String handling.
2) strncmp starts with the prefix "str"
3) Contrary to memcmp, strncmp will STOP the comparison at a zero byte,
i.e. it has STRING SEMANTICS!

Yes, but it doesn't _require_ it's arguments to be strings.

But you go on telling that it is not a string comparison function.

At the very least I'd say it's a sub-string comparison function.

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