On Mon, 6 Aug 2012, Pavel Machek wrote: > 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)) { While you're at it, there's no point using strncmp when you know the length of one of the strings beforehand. Just use memcmp, and don't subtract 1 from the sizeof value. Alan Stern