On Thu 2012-07-26 21:39:38, Len Brown wrote: > ...both give the number of chars in the string > without the '\0', as strncmp() wants, > but sizeof() is compile-time. What about introducing something like streq() to do this automatically? This is ugly.... #define streq(a, b) ... if (_buildin_constant(b)) ... ? > - if (!strncmp(val, "enable", strlen("enable"))) { > + if (!strncmp(val, "enable", sizeof("enable") - 1)) { Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html