Thread: Any error in this function?

I'm self studying C with Practical C programming (3:rd) - O'Reilly.

I have the following exercise
"Exercise 9-2 : Write a function begins(string1,string2) that returns true if string1 begins string2. Write a program to test the function."

I write the following code to do it! Is this a correct and good code?

Code:

#include <stdio.h>

int begins(char str1[], char str2[])
{
	int i, state;
	
	for(i=0 ; str1[i] != '\0' ; i++)
	{
		if(str1[i] == str2[i])
		{
		state = 1;
		}
		else
		{
		state = 0;
		break;
		}
		
	}
	return(state);
}

int main()
{
	printf("True : %i\n", begins("123", "12345"));
	printf("False : %i\n", begins("1234", "122345"));

	return(0);
}

I have the feeling that I could do this in another and better way for some reason.

And what do you get for

Code:

begins("False", "abcdef");
begins("False", "F");

The trick is to look at your code and ask yourself "How can I break this?"