Thread: Comparing Strings?

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    Comparing Strings?

    If I have a some pre-defined string names array such as

    char *pet_names[] = {
    "Dog",
    "Cat"
    };

    and I want to prompt the user to enter an Animal name such as

    printf("Enter a type of Animal ");
    gets(Animal)

    I want to be able to compare the inputed animal name to the above predefined names and set that to an integer value. Say if the user enters in Dog. I want to set Animal to 0, if the user enters in Cat, I want to set Animal to 1 and so on. How would I code this?? Any help would be appreciated.

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    I would start here.
    Work something out and if you are still having woe's, post the code and we'll help you through it.

    gg

    (had to be the one time I didn't preview messae...)
    ...
    (or "messae" for that matter)
    Last edited by Codeplug; 03-06-2003 at 11:32 AM.

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    [nitpick]you put [usl] which is why the hyperlink did not appear![/nitpick]

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    Dont use gets(), use fgets() instead.
    For comparing strings use the strcmp() function.

    Code:
    #include <stdio.h>
    #include <stdlib.h>
    #include <string.h>
    
    int main(void)
    {
        char usrAnimal[50];
        char *p; //will help us to remove \n from string
        char *pet_names[] = {
            "cat",
            "dog"
        };
        
        //get user animal and compare it with pet names
        printf( "Enter animal: " );
        fgets ( usrAnimal, sizeof (usrAnimal), stdin);
        
        //remove the \n from the string, fgets added it
        p = strchr( usrAnimal, '\n' );
        if (p) *p = '\0';
        
        //compare and see if they're equals
        if (strcmp(usrAnimal,pet_names[0]) == 0)
           printf("%s and %s are equals\n",usrAnimal,pet_names[0]);
        else
          printf("They're are different\n");
        
        //pause and exit
        system("PAUSE");
        return 0;
    }

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