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right, what I meant was I was hoping I could use something like strncmp() instead that would know how to treat NULL...etc..

thanks again though, I think your latter suggestion is the way I'll have...

thanks, was hoping there would be a more "correct" way to do this.
I really thought this would be a more common problem with a lib function I could use in this case. But thanks much for your...

hi everyone,

Right now when I do:

strcmp(s1, s2);

i get a core dump because at times s1 or s2 can be nothing so that makes strcmp() core dump.

What is the solution, if at times I expect...

hi all,

I'm trying to resolve a scenario where we prompt the user to enter 1 or more disk names.

From there we would run a command on each disk which would give its location.

This would...

thanks so much! that is perfect.

Hi sorry I wasn't clear.

I'm actually want to pass the string "set=a", "set=b", "set=c", etc....to the function. The "set=" part always stays the same but a, b, c...etc. change which is the part...

hey guys,

I have a function that I need to pass something like this to:

function(set=a);

so the "set=" part is always the same, but I'm getting the "a" part in a for loop.

so the calls...

:p yeah any other UNIX/C boards that are a little more active?

good point. thanks so much!! this is perfect.

thanks!

but the catch here (which I just realized) is I need to know if they ever pass just "markid=". This means they want to clear the field....

So with the above suggestion, when they...

Hi all,

Right now I'm using this but it seems to be a hack:

if (prefix(arg, "mark=")) {
for (markid = strtok(args[0],"="); markid; markid=strtok((char *)NULL, "=")) {...