Thread: Help Writing My Own String Compare

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char street_name[MAX][STR_MAX]
char comp_street_name[MAX][STR_MAX]

Both of these are arrays of strings. If you want to compare one string against every string in an array of strings one of them should be declared as a single string. Of course you could be trying to compare every string in an array against every string in another array or just comparing one string from an array against all strings in another array.
To compare a string against all strings in an array of strings would be like this

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for (int i=0; i<MAX;i++)
{
   if (!strcmp(Array[i], FooString))
   //do something
}

Originally Posted by djwicks

im a little unsure what result

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if ( !strcmp ( array[i] ...

will give. shouldnt i compare the result to zero if they r the same?

if two strings are the same strcmp returns zero so using the ! (not) operator makes the false experesion become true so if the expersion is true (string matches) we do what follows the if statement. You could also use ==0.

and also what do i do because my other string is a dynamic 2D array. should i have

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if ( !strcmp ( array[i][j] ...

. cos i use array[location of word][location of character]. and if that makes a difference then how would i set that out in the for loop?

if you want to start comparing from a certain charactor then you would do this

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strcmp(&array[i][j],...

But if you're always going to be comparing from the start of the word you just need

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strcmp(array[i],...