Hi,
On Thu, 2 Nov 2006, Jeff King wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 01:44:36AM +0000, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
>
> > That said if you know its constant you can also use sizeof("foo") and
> > that is done at compile time. Something like:
> >
> > #define strxcmp(x, y) strncmp((x), (y), sizeof((y))
>
> You would, of course, need to use sizeof(y)-1 to avoid comparing the NUL
> termination. :)
>
> This is a slightly dangerous macro, because it _only_ works for string
> literals, but not pointers (which is fine in this case, but its
> limitations need to be documented).
It would be even better to avoid these errors by doing something like
#define starts_with(x, y) !strncmp((x), #y, sizeof(#y) - 1)
which would be used like this:
if (starts_with(arg, --abbrev=))
However, in this case, you would need another macro, which automatically
extracts the argument, and soon you will end up with yet another getopt
package.
Ciao,
Dscho
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