On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 11:45 AM, George Joseph
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I've been working on some changes for config.c and in the process I've found
> 5 instances of someone attempting to do "cat->name == category_name" instead
> of "strcmp(cat->name, category_name)".    Example:
>
> /* try exact match first, then case-insensitive match */
> for (cat = config->root; cat; cat = cat->next) {
> if (cat->name == category_name && (ignored || !cat->ignored))
> return cat;
> }
>
> for (cat = config->root; cat; cat = cat->next) {
> if (!strcasecmp(cat->name, category_name) && (ignored || !cat->ignored))
> return cat;
> }
>
> The result is that the case sensitive match never succeeds and it's always
> the case insensitive match that's run.
>
> My question is...  Should I fix these so the case sensitive match works and
> runs first or just remove the first loop so the match is always
> case-insensitive?   I'm hoping the latter not only because it makes the code
> simpler but because that's how it's worked for years and suddenly making the
> match case sensitive might cause unexpected problems.
>
> Thoughts?
>
For me, case sensitive.  Because I config files that do have:

[Foo]

[foo]

[fOO]

don't ask, long story.

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