Hi, That part of the description is directly taken from the C standard (nearly verbatim). It's terse but quite clear though. Thanks, Ponnuvel On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 8:08 AM Andrew Micallef <andrew.micallef@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > > I'd like to suggest an edit to the description of `strcmp` in the standard C library man page. > I found this description to be kind of confusing, and think the language could be a bit more > straight forward. > > > > At present the description reads as follows: > > The strcmp() function compares the two strings s1 and s2. The locale > is not taken into account (for a locale-aware comparison, see > strcoll(3)). It returns an integer less than, equal to, or greater > than zero if s1 is found, respectively, to be less than, to match, or > be greater than s2. > > I am suggesting the following edits: > > The strcmp() function compares the two strings s1 and s2. The locale > is not taken into account (for a locale-aware comparison, see > strcoll(3)). It returns an integer, which is 0 if the strings > match. Otherwise, a negative integer indicates s1 is less than s2, > while a positive integer indicates s1 is greater than s2. > > > Regards > Andrew > -- Regards, Ponnuvel P
