Date:	Tue, 1 Apr 1997 18:47:29 -0600 (CST)
From:	Andrew Deren <aderen AT eecs DOT uic DOT edu>
To:	deltaman AT swipnet DOT se
cc:	DJGPP ML <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject:	Re: String comparing problem
In-Reply-To:	<33417135.1856@geocities.com>
Message-ID:	<Pine.SUN.3.95.970401184256.799A-100000@bert.eecs.uic.edu>
MIME-Version:	1.0

First you try to mix pascal with C.
THe proper way to this is to use strcmp() function
if (strcmp(one_string, other_string) =3D=3D 0) {
printf("they are equal.");
}
BTW: By writing #197 do you mean extended ASCII character 197? Because
that is
the way you do it in pascal.


On Tue, 1 Apr 1997, Deltaman wrote:

> Hi!
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> Thanx to all for your help with my multiple file problem. Now I've got
> another problem :)
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> I have a program to exchange special HTML-letters to plain text i.e
> &#233 to =E9=82 and so on.
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> In the beginner I set a string called 'test_string'
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> char test_string[5] ;
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> I do some other code that puts values into test_string character by
> character.
> I have a test line that prints the contents of a string to the screen.
> Its output is:
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> from the lines:
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> printf(test_string);
> printf("<--End of test string");
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> I get the output:
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> #197; <--End of test string
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> When I checks if test_string is equal to a special character:
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> if (test_string =3D=3D "#197; ") printf("I should see this");
> if (test_string =3D=3D "#197;")  printf("or this");
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> ...nothing happens.
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> What do I do wrong?
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> Thanx in advance!
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