On 2/10/2015 4:04 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > Hi Franta, > >> I got the impression that string declared as >> >> char mystring[]="$DOSEMU$"; >> >> is in memory stored as null-terminated string. > This does not help you: The OTHER string STARTS > with "$DOSEMU$", but is NOT null terminated, so > both strings still differ. Unless you explicitly > say you only want to compare the first 8 bytes. > In short, you still have to use strncmp() here. > Sorry, that what was I meant in my previous reply, bad wording on my part. The recommendation still stands, as you are comparing a fixed length "array of characters", just use that fixed length in the call to strncmp(), just as Eric mentioned...
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