[mercury-users] string comparisons

Nicholas Nethercote njn at csse.unimelb.edu.au
Fri Jan 25 09:35:02 AEDT 2008


On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Julien Fischer wrote:

>> I don't see any predicates to compare strings in the 'string' library. 
>> Does the built-in string comparison do lexicographical ordering?
>
> The builin string comparison just calls strcmp() in the C grades,

Can I rely on this?  It's not documented, as far as I can see.

Given how many operations there are in the string library, I was surprised 
that no comparison operation is (obviously) in there.

Nick
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