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Re: Some strfns.cc loose ends
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John W. Eaton |
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Re: Some strfns.cc loose ends |
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Thu, 26 Jul 2012 10:21:37 -0400 |
On 25-Jul-2012, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
| On 07/25/2012 07:21 PM, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
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| > In any case, thoughts on getting rid of the FIXME by simply error-ing
| > out when the element is a non-string as opposed to skipping and
| > indicating 0?
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| As a followup, one of the tests for strncmp is:
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| octave:10> strncmp (100, 100, 1)
| ans = 0
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| So, 100 and 100 are the same quantity, but when compared as strings they
| are not equal/equivalent. Isn't this result weird?
It may be weird, but it is documented behavior for Matlab.
jwe