Thread: strcmp

  1. 07-15-2010 #1
    lostandconfused
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    strcmp

    this line is giving me an error: "Too few arguments to function 'strcmp'

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    while (lastsearch (strcmp(r[i].last)) < 0)
    How can I fix this?
  2. 07-15-2010 #2
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    What are you trying to compare r[i].last with? That would be the other argument to strcmp.
    Quote Originally Posted by Bjarne Stroustrup (2000-10-14)
    I get maybe two dozen requests for help with some sort of programming or design problem every day. Most have more sense than to send me hundreds of lines of code. If they do, I ask them to find the smallest example that exhibits the problem and send me that. Mostly, they then find the error themselves. "Finding the smallest program that demonstrates the error" is a powerful debugging tool.
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    to compare something you need at least 2 things to compare. Hence too few arguments.
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    Maybe the dot should have been a comma.
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