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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting A little help please Post 302145565 by porter on Wednesday 14th of November 2007 04:12:11 PM
Old 11-14-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by immyakram
$ str1=abcd
$ test $str1 = abcd
$ echo $?
0
Good.

Quote:
Originally Posted by immyakram
$ str1="abcd "
$ test "$str1" = abcd
$ echo $?
1
Yes, this test fails because str1 has a trailing space, ie, the string is five characters long, not four, so does not match.

Last edited by porter; 11-14-2007 at 05:26 PM..
 
streqvcmp(3)							Programmer's Manual						      streqvcmp(3)

NAME
streqvcmp - compare two strings with an equivalence mapping SYNOPSIS
#include <your-opts.h> cc [...] -o outfile infile.c -lopts [...] int streqvcmp(char const* str1, char const* str2); DESCRIPTION
Using a character mapping, two strings are compared for "equivalence". Each input character is mapped to a comparison character and the mapped-to characters are compared for the two NUL terminated input strings. This function name is mapped to option_streqvcmp so as to not conflict with the POSIX name space. str1 first string str2 second string RETURN VALUE
the difference between two differing characters ERRORS
none checked. Caller responsible for seg faults. SEE ALSO
The info documentation for the -lopts library. ao_string_tokenize(3), configFileLoad(3), optionFileLoad(3), optionFindNextValue(3), optionFindValue(3), optionFree(3), optionGetValue(3), optionLoadLine(3), optionNextValue(3), optionOnlyUsage(3), optionProcess(3), optionRestore(3), optionSaveFile(3), optionSaveState(3), optionUnloadNested(3), optionVersion(3), pathfind(3), strequate(3), streqvmap(3), strneqvcmp(3), strtransform(3), 2011-07-10 streqvcmp(3)
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