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Old August 5th, 2006, 07:13 PM
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A simple String compare

I have a simple question for the board. I'm new here and to c++ and I'm having major issuses writing a string compare function that returns -1 if the compare fails and a struct number (lets say j) if the string is he same.

Can anyone help me with this?

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Old August 5th, 2006, 07:26 PM
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Code:
int cmpstr(str1, str2)
{
      if(str1 == str2)
         {
            return struct_number;
          }

      else
             return -1;
}

so;

string stringer = "HELLO!"
string stringerer = "goodbye"

cmpstr(stringer, stringerer);
would return -1



This only works on c++ strings and not c strings (e.g. char * ok[100]).

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Old August 5th, 2006, 11:46 PM
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Code:
void FindRecord()
 {// Finds and displays specified record on screen
 
 	char CallNo[cMaxChars];
 	int i;
 	
 	cout  << " Enter call number: ";
 	cin.getline(CallNo, cMaxChars);
 	
 	i = SearchRecords(CallNo);
 	
 	if (i != -1)
 	{
 		PrintRecord(i);
 	}		
 	else 
 	{
 		cout << "Record Not Found" <<endl;
 	};
 }
 
 
 int SearchRecords(char CallNo[])
 {// returns index of matching record or -1 if not found
 
 	int i = 0;
 	
 	if(CallNo == gRecs[i].CallNumber)
 	{
 		return i;
 	}
 	else
 	{
 		return -1;
 	 };
 	
 }



//My display records function works like a charm but I can't get these two functions //to communicate on the same wave-length. Can somebody tell me how to get the //void function calling the int function effectively?

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Old August 6th, 2006, 09:17 PM
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What type is gRecs[i].CallNumber? If it is an integer, you can't compare a string to an integer and it will fail. If it is a char[], you can't compare char*/char[] strings (c-strings) with the == operator. You need to use strcmp().

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