From: ckgp!thomas AT uunet DOT uu DOT net
Subject: STRCMP (problem?)
To: uunet!sun.soe.clarkson.edu!djgpp AT uunet DOT UU DOT NET
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 93 12:29:13 EST

Hi,

   I noticed something strange and was wondering if anyone else has
   noticed this? when using strcmp the result numbers are about 46
   so

   stat = strcmp("number","number");  stat == 46
   stat = strcmp("number","number#");  also stat==46
   stat = strcmp("is","what"); stat == 41
   stat = strcmp("was","that"); stat == 55

   Isn't strcmp supposed to return numbers <0,=0,>0 as results?
   When I noticed this I wrote a simple program to compare to strings
   and print the result... then I thought that it might have something
   to do with 2.3.3 so I loaded 2.2.2 again and the same thing happens...
   I am running djgpp 1.09...

   any ideas? is this suposed to be like this... if so is 46 equivalent
   to 0, and why do you think comparing number,number is the same as
   comparing number,number# ?

   Any information would be great! Thanks...
  
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