Re: `compare-strings' style question

[tomas]

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On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 08:55:27PM +0100, Andreas Politz wrote:

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> (defun string-prefixp (string prefix &optional ignore-case)
>   "Return t if PREFIX is a prefix of STRING."
>   (eq t
>       (compare-strings string 0 (length prefix)
>                        prefix 0 (length prefix)
>                        ignore-case)))
> 
> I defined this function in one of my elisp files.  Why don't you do just
> the same ? Where is the problem.

Thanks. I'll do something along these lines when I have more than one
use. The problem is mainly with my surprise. I had the feeling I was
doing something wrong.

Regards
- -- tomás
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