[OctDev] Re: strcmp doesn't return a bool

[John W. E. <jw...@be...>]

On 20-May-2005, Tom Holroyd wrote:

| Here's one that does.  This is based on JWE's strcmp.
| 
| I collapsed the case
| 	strncmp(cell array, string matrix, n)
| to
| 	strncmp(string matrix, cell array, n)
| with the arguments reversed; the same thing could be done to strcmp.

I included the strncmp function in Octave (both 2.9.x and 2.1.x).

| I don't know if it's slower or faster, but it's easier to maintain,
| certainly.  There's a similar possible collapse in the cell, cell
| case, but it looks like it might be a bit slower.

Yes, it is likely to be slower because recursion is slow in Octave.

But if you would like to make a similar change to strcmp.m now to make
it simpler to maintain and more similar to the strncmp function, I
would take the patch.

Thanks,

jwe