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1. To compare two string in C Programming, you have to ask to the user to enter the two string and start comparing using the function strcmp. If it will return 0, then both string will be equal and if it will not return 0, then both string will not be equal to each other as shown in here in the following program.
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I'm having a problem while comparing one character from a string with a .. string.

This is a part of a pretty complex loop (or, it's complex for me, since I'm new to C++ and programming), but the case is that I need to compare the value of a given i index of a string to a string. /how-to-download-c-dev-to-visual-studios.html. For example:

Well, this is just a silly example program, but I hope you see whats wrong (because I don't..)

C String Functions. String function are the functions that are used to perform operations on a string. C uses string.h library to provides various string functions like strcat, strlen, strcmp, strcpy, swap, and many more where strcat is used to concatenate string, strlen will calculate the length of the string, strcmp is used to compare two strings, strcpy will copy one value of the. The function strcmp is widely used in sorting of lists of names. Let S1 and S2 be the names of two strings. The function compares lexicographically (dictionary style) string S1 with string S2. It returns -1, 0, 1, respectively, if S1 is less than S2, equal to S2, or greater than S2. Sep 20, 2018  We code in C and C both and also shows you how the function performs differently in both languages and how it uses the char array and not strings. We also show you the alternatives of strcmp.

Thanks! :)

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Nick Evan4,005

Very simple mistake: if (str[x] 'a') should be: if (str[x] 'a') You are comparing each character from a string with another character, so you need single quotes instead of double

if I have done something against the forum rules

Actually, you are one of the few people who get the Code-tags right in their first post, so : bravo!

This came up in another thread. I gave some advice that I'm not longer sure of. Rather than hijacking that thread, I figured I'd start my own. I advised against using the in that thread. The context was this:

Ancient Dragon said the above was fine and that compare was unnecessary. So I wondered if maybe was only bad when comparing two string variables, so I did a little test program and it worked:

The line displayed to the screen. So my question is when is it bad to use when comparing strings? I thought the program above was not supposed to work. Apparently I was mistaken. If it's always fine to use , do we ever need to use the 'compare' function?

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Heres the same basic information using a slightly different explanation:

Given:
string a = 'hello';

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Ancient Dragon5,243

>>string subChoice =';
It isn't necessary to provide an initializer for strings because that's the default. Just string subChoice; is sufficient.

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>> do we ever need to use the 'compare' function
You use it when you need to know if one string is less than, equal to, or greater than the second string, such as in sorting algorithms. You could also use the < and > operators but then that might be too slow when used in if conditions because the comparison would have to be repeated.