Re: K&R Exercise 6-2

mdh wrote:
On Aug 29, 5:11 am, Eric Sosman <esos...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
mdh wrote:
In most of the exercises that K&R write, there seems to be a
relationship to some library function .......
Exercise 6-2

The exercise seems designed to point out the difference
between strcmp() and strncmp(), in the context of a comparison
function for qsort(). So there's certainly a library tie-in,
if that's what you felt was missing.



Thank you Eric.


However, the definition of "alphabetical order" according to strcmp,
isn't exactly the same on different character sets.

In ASCII, a variable name like "A6A", comes before "ABA".
In EBCDIC, a variable name like "A6A", comes after "ABA".

Also uppercase letters come before lower case in ASCII,
but not in EBCDIC.

--
pete
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