Match beginning of two strings

[Jim Richardson]

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On Sun, 3 Aug 2003 12:44:59 -0600,
 Andrew Dalke <adalke at mindspring.com> wrote:
> Jim Richardson:
>> Why bother finding out which one is the shorter? if you try the compare,
>> and you run out of the other to compare to, then by default, it's not
>> the same :)
> 
> Because I wasn't sure if the strings had embedded NULs in them.
> Python strings allow those.
> 

Ah, I hadn't considered that. 

> Otherwise something like this would work
> 
> char *s1, *s2 = ... the strings from Python
> char *s = s1;
> while ( *s1 && (*s1++ == *s2++))
>     ;
> return the string from s->s1, or just the size s1-s.
> 
>                     Andrew
>                     dalke at dalkescientific.com
> 
> 


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