Thread: strcmp return value

Originally Posted by CommonTater

I said....


Tabstop says...

and later...


Ain't it a pain when you get so zealous about correcting people that it comes right back around to bite you....

Brilliant use of selective editing there.

Originally Posted by Salem

Portable code use <0, ==0 and >0

Absolutely... even if the standard said explicitly to expect -1, 0 or 1 I'd still use <0, ==0 or > 0 as my test when sorting... Simply because there are compilers out there that do not follow the standards or pre-date them.

(Not that portable code is an issue with me personally... Believe me, nobody will ever see the source code for any of my larger projects without handing over a LOT of money.)

thank you very much for the explanations everyone

Originally Posted by tabstop

Brilliant use of selective editing there.

Thank you. Coming from you, I'll take that as a compliment.

Originally Posted by cph

thank you very much for the explanations everyone

Begging the question... Did we help you or did we make it worse?

Originally Posted by CommonTater

Begging the question... Did we help you or did we make it worse?

yeah, the explanations are very helpful.