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AHELP for CIAO 3.4 strncmp Context: slangrtl

Synopsis

Compare the first few characters of two strings

Syntax

Integer_Type strncmp (String_Type a, String_Type b, Integer_Type n)

Description

This function behaves like strcmp except that it compares only the first n characters in the strings a and b. See the documentation for strcmp for information about the return value.

Example

The expression

     strcmp ("apple", "appliance", 3);

will return zero since the first three characters match.

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