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Top Forums Programming regarding string length Post 302242911 by era on Friday 3rd of October 2008 07:34:37 AM
Old 10-03-2008
It's still not clear what the problem is.

Is the file name the empty string, or a string consisting of one space, or a string containing double quote, space, double quote, comma, backtick, backslash, zero, backtick?

All of these can be detected by strcmp

Code:
if ((stcmp(filename,""))==0) {
  printf ("filename empty\n");
} else if ((strcmp(filename," "))==0) {
  printf ("filename is a single space\n");
} else if ((stcmp(filename,"\" \",`\\0`"))==0) {
  printf ("filename is literally \" \",`\\0`\n");
}

(Or is there even another space before the first double quote?)
 

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