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Posted by Zeno   USA  (2,867 posts)  [Biography] bio   Moderator
Date Mon 01 Nov 2004 05:17 PM (UTC)  [ quote  ]
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Is there any sort of function or linux command that would check a string for a certain character? For example:
strchk( buf, "death" );

Would check the buffer 'buf' for "death". Does Smaug or linux have anything like that? If not, how would I got about doing that? Basically, I want to check a pcdata string for if it has the characters name in it.
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Posted by Greven   Canada  (835 posts)  [Biography] bio
Date Reply #1 on Mon 01 Nov 2004 05:27 PM (UTC)  [ quote  ]

Amended on Mon 01 Nov 2004 05:29 PM (UTC) by Greven

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You can use the strstr function, like such
strstr(buf, "death")

It returns true if the second argument is found in the first.
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Posted by Zeno   USA  (2,867 posts)  [Biography] bio   Moderator
Date Reply #2 on Mon 01 Nov 2004 05:37 PM (UTC)  [ quote  ]

Amended on Mon 01 Nov 2004 05:39 PM (UTC) by Zeno

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Thanks, although it is case sensitive. Should I follow how Smaug did str_cmp? (Where was that defined?)

[EDIT] str_str seems to already exist in grub.c
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Posted by Rogel   USA  (5 posts)  [Biography] bio
Date Reply #3 on Fri 05 Nov 2004 06:54 AM (UTC)  [ quote  ]
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Look into strcasestr.
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