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Article:		Strings in Cocoa: Part I
Subject:		Why not correct the wrong example
Date:		2001-07-05 00:42:35
From:		darwinfo
Hi out there, as it has been discussed already, the string-compare-example is wrong. Just for curiosity, why hasn't it been corrected in the meantime? The correct solution is quite simple: if (strcmp(string1, string2) == 0) { .... } Greetings from Hof/Germany Peter

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• Why not correct the wrong example
  2001-07-06 09:59:28  Derrick Story | [View]
  
  
  The example has been corrected with a dated Editor's Note above it so we all can keep our documentation striaght.
  
  Thanks to all who helped!
  
  Derrick
• Why not correct the wrong example
  2001-07-06 17:06:32  briandds [View]
  
  
  Um, it's still wrong. strcmp() returns zero if the strings are identical, so the code there should be:
  
  if ( !strcmp(string1, string2) ) {
  // do the following code
  }
  
  There wasn't much substance to this particular article anyway, so I don't know that it matters.