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* Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> [2017-05-11T11:22:42] > I would like to add the macros given below to handy.h. The situations they > handle occur reasonably frequently in the core, and these can save > developers from thinking they have to manually count the characters in a > string. > > I am not confident at all about the names, and would like to see if people > have better ones. I had a talk to Karl today about these, and here were my tentative suggestions: > strSTARTS_WITHs > memSTARTS_WITHs strSUBSTR_STARTs memSUBSTR_STARTs > memENDS_WITHs memSUBSTR_ENDs > memFOO_STARTING_WITHs > memFOO_ENDING_WITHs memPSUBSTR_STARTs memPSUBSTR_ENDs Here, the "P" is for "proper," as only a proper substring will be matched. -- rjbsThread Previous | Thread Next