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String Equality Tester

07.04.2007

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        If you want to test the equality of two strings and don't want the overhead of strcmp(), then this is the function for you.

_Bool strequals(char* a, char* b) {
 if (!a || !b) return 0;
 do {if (*a != *b) return 0; } while (*a++ && *b++);
 return 1;
}

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Snippets Manager replied on Sat, 2009/05/02 - 1:40am

Quickly wrote two methods: bool strequals(const char* a, const char* b) { if (!a || !b) return 0; do {if (*a != *b) return 0; } while (*a++ && *b++); return 1; } bool string_comp(const string &a, const string &b) { return a == b; } Compared a couple of strings in a loop a million times with each method above and the result is: Time spent strequals: 0.007564 Time spent string_comp: 0.000434