More C programming questions ...

[Rick Sivernell]

On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 15:16:06 +0100
Roger Oberholtzer <roger at opq.se> wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 12:47 -0600, Rick Sivernell wrote: 
> 
> > All
> > 
> > > > for (idx = 0 ; idx < numberitems ; idx++ )
> >  {
> >       gogetmydata( string ) ;
> >       if (! strncmp( string, "ITEMID", 6) ) // less work for the compiler &
> >       typing
> 
> Less typing, but less obvious. If you read this, it would be 'if not
> strncmp...)', when what you really mean is 'if strncmp() says strings
> match'. Which For understandable maintainable code, I, personally, would
> do:
> 
> #Define STRINGS_MATCH 0 // Maybe in an #include file I use all
> 			// the time
> 
> If ( strncmp( string, "ITEMID", 6) == STRINGS_MATCH) { whatever }
> 
> Granted this is a common function that would not confuse a programmer.
> But when the functions become less common, this is, IMHO, much better.
> 
> All a matter of taste.
> 
> -- 
> Roger Oberholtzer <roger at opq.se>
> 
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Roger

> All a matter of taste.  <<  I agree,  different stroke for different folks, <g>
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