Hey guys,
I was wondering about the function strcmp(), does the function compare word with spaces? eg: If I have two same words "Harith Javed"; will it match both words??
Hey guys,
I was wondering about the function strcmp(), does the function compare word with spaces? eg: If I have two same words "Harith Javed"; will it match both words??
Yes, it will.
strcmp() will keep comparing characters until it finds a difference or reaches the end of the string (the NULL terminator). Spaces aren't anything special to it -- it'll compare the space just like any other character.
Thanks
strcmp compares strings, not words
if you have 2 strings containing same words but delimitered by different characters (like space and 2 spaces, or space in one string and \t in another) - strcmp will return non-zero value since some chars that are not part of the words differ.
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Ya, thats the best way to find out, and I already tried that but it didn't work. So was just confirming.Take a friendly piece of advice: It is best for you, I would say, to test your wonders. Write a small program that implements your wondering and find out yourself.
Didn't work? What did you try?
I'm going to guess that you read a line with spaces by using fgets(), then tried to compare the string with strcmp() and it failed.
The answer, my young apprentice, is to look at the \n that fgets() places in the input buffer.
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If at first you don't succeed, try writing your phone number on the exam paper.
Well you got that right, thanks!
