At 10:21 AM -0500 3/22/01, Stringer wrote:
>...
>I just checked the definition of StrNCompare in the OS3.5 documentation
>and it doesn't say that the strings have to be null-terminated.
>
>THIS IS A BUG!
Call it whatever you like, but StrNCompare is *not* strncmp.
If you do not terminate the sequence of bytes with a null, it is not a string but
rather a byte array, in which case the function you seek would be called MemNCompare
or memncmp.
Regards,
Jim Schram
Palm Incorporated
Partner Engineering
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