prefixcmp() cannot be really used as a comparison function as
it is not antisymmetric:
prefixcmp("foo", "foobar") < 0
prefixcmp("foobar", "foo") == 0
So it is not suitable as a function for passing to qsort.
And in fact it is used nowhere as a comparison function.
So we should replace it with a function that just checks for
equality.
As a first step toward this goal, this patch introduces
starts_with().
Some popular programming languages have functions or methods
called using "start" and "with" that are doing what we want.
Therefore it makes sense to use starts_with() as a function
name to replace prefixcmp().
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chrisc...@tuxfamily.org>
---
git-compat-util.h | 1 +
strbuf.c | 9 +++++++++
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff --git a/git-compat-util.h b/git-compat-util.h
index 37f0ba0..e441a6b 100644
--- a/git-compat-util.h
+++ b/git-compat-util.h
@@ -351,6 +351,7 @@ extern void set_error_routine(void (*routine)(const char
*err, va_list params));
extern void set_die_is_recursing_routine(int (*routine)(void));
extern int prefixcmp(const char *str, const char *prefix);
+extern int starts_with(const char *str, const char *prefix);
extern int ends_with(const char *str, const char *suffix);
static inline const char *skip_prefix(const char *str, const char *prefix)
diff --git a/strbuf.c b/strbuf.c
index 2a14fdb..933d998 100644
--- a/strbuf.c
+++ b/strbuf.c
@@ -10,6 +10,15 @@ int prefixcmp(const char *str, const char *prefix)
return (unsigned char)*prefix - (unsigned char)*str;
}
+int starts_with(const char *str, const char *prefix)
+{
+ for (; ; str++, prefix++)
+ if (!*prefix)
+ return 1;
+ else if (*str != *prefix)
+ return 0;
+}
+
int ends_with(const char *str, const char *suffix)
{
int len = strlen(str), suflen = strlen(suffix);
--
1.8.4.1.561.g12affca
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