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On 05/31/2017 05:16 PM, Ricardo Signes wrote: > * 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. > I like these, and will implement them if I don't hear contrary opinions soon.Thread Previous