Thread: strcmp help please

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    strcmp help please

    I cannot seem to get the following command to trigger. I see the UART characters on a digital analyzer so I know the characters are there. pRx gets updated in a UART ISR, therefore the volatile....Can someone please tell me if I have the types specified accordingly?

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    volatile char *pRx;const char* pTx;
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    const char* testcmd = "ER_CMD#P?";
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        pTx = testcmd;
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    if (strcmp((const char*)pTx, (const char*)pRx) == 0) {

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    First thing to check is whether your input string is \0 terminated before you try to strcmp it.

    None of the casting will help.
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    When I look at expression testcmd in the debug window I do NOT see a \0 at the tail...The pRx is a pointer to a volatile char incoming[20]....This array is oversized and filled with 0x00....So I am guessing I am not terminated correctly....Can you tell me how to do that correctly?

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    Show your receiving code that appends to the buffer.
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    Code:
    *(&incoming)	unsigned char[20]	[69 'E',82 'R',95 '_',67 'C',77 'M'...]	0x002000	
    	[0]	unsigned char	69 'E'	0x002000	
    	[1]	unsigned char	82 'R'	0x002001	
    	[2]	unsigned char	95 '_'	0x002002	
    	[3]	unsigned char	67 'C'	0x002003	
    	[4]	unsigned char	77 'M'	0x002004	
    	[5]	unsigned char	68 'D'	0x002005	
    	[6]	unsigned char	35 '#'	0x002006	
    	[7]	unsigned char	80 'P'	0x002007	
    	[8]	unsigned char	57 '9'	0x002008	
    	[9]	unsigned char	0 '\x00'	0x002009	
    	[10]	unsigned char	0 '\x00'	0x00200A	
    	[11]	unsigned char	0 '\x00'	0x00200B	
    	[12]	unsigned char	0 '\x00'	0x00200C	
    	[13]	unsigned char	0 '\x00'	0x00200D	
    	[14]	unsigned char	0 '\x00'	0x00200E	
    	[15]	unsigned char	0 '\x00'	0x00200F	
    	[16]	unsigned char	0 '\x00'	0x002010	
    	[17]	unsigned char	0 '\x00'	0x002011	
    	[18]	unsigned char	0 '\x00'	0x002012	
    	[19]	unsigned char	0 '\x00'	0x002013

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    Am I missing something here?
    Are you expecting strcmp("ER_CMD#P?", "ER_CMD#P9") to be 0?
    The are obviously not equal: '?' != '9'

    Maybe you mean to do something more like this:
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    char buf[512];
     
    fgets(buf, sizeof buf, ???);
     
    const char *xyz = "ER_CMD#P";   // doesn't have the question mark
     
    if (strncmp(buf, xyz, strlen(xyz)) == 0)
    {
        int n = buf[strlen(xyz)] - '0';
    }
    Last edited by john.c; 04-07-2020 at 01:06 PM.
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