[plug] strncmp in shell

[Russell Steicke]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 03:31:33PM +0800, James Devenish wrote:
...
> But I didn't think you were testing for the behaviour of strncmp (since
> the 'variable' portion of the string is left of the first slash, not to
> its right). For example, the following strings:
> 
>     one, on, onex, oneone
> 
> used with strncmp(...,"one",3) will produce:
> 
>     equal, not equal, equal, equal
> 
> Yet, checking for the empty string after ${FOO/one/} produces these
> corresponding results:
> 
>     true, false, false, false

I stand corrected.  What I wrote was closer to strcmp() than strncmp().

> I suspect the ${...:0:3} = "one" or $... == one* syntaxes would work,
> though.

Yes, one of these or similar syntaxes (there are a few) would probably
work.



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