Subj : Re: string comparison
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : "MarvinAvery" <marvin.avery@hrdc-drhc.gc.ca>
Date : Mon Nov 24 2003 09:47 am

"Base8" <Base8@base8.com> wrote in message
news:3fc20683$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
> Is there a simple way to do this?  Any help appreciated.  My intention is
to
> look at the first character of a passed string and verify that it contains
> either an upper or lower case alpha ( >= a && <= z ) and ( >= A && <= Z ).
> So, I figure I'd do a case insensitive comparison on the string and simply
> test for zero (i.e. below).  Well, no dice.  I'm sure I've seen this, I
just
> can't put my fingers on it.
>
>
>
> newstring = new char[ sizeof(passedstring + 1 )] ;
> assert( newstring != 0 ) ;
>   if(strlen(passedstring) >= 5 && strlen(passedstring) <= 8 )
>     { strcpy(newstring, passedstring) ;
>        return 0 ; }
>   if( strncmpi(passedstring,(>="a" & <="z"),1)==0 )     <-------here
>     { return 0 ;  }
>   else return -1 ;
>
>

How about:
    if (isalpha(*passedstring))
        return 0;


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Marvin Avery
marvin.avery@hrdc-drhc.gc.ca

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