On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Farrell Woods wrote:

> It's a "standard" feature actually.  O'Reilly aren't "wrong" strictly
> speaking, they just left out a potentially interesting detail.  I can

Not only interesting, but essential.  

> only guess at the reason(s) for the omission...  In my experience it's
> much more common to use strcmp() to test two strings equality than it is
> to compare them lexicographically (my experience being that of a
> kernel/network/driver person.)

Ah, you obviously don't do much sorting of strings! :)  


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Derek Martin
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