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Subject: Re: Please add strrev proposal
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Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 07:05:19 GMT
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"A. Sinan Unur" wrote:
> 
> CBFalconer <cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com> wrote in
> news:3BB50884 DOT 347A4384 AT yahoo DOT com:
> 
> > Thank you.  I knew there was a reason I made my equivalent
> > (revstring) a void function.  I just didn't know what it was :-)
> 
> The usefulness of a strrev function depends very much on what you intend to
> use it for. For example, if your program is looking for palindromes, you
> might want to use something like:
> 
> strcmp(word, strrev(word));
> 
which has precisely the undefined action you illustrated earlier. 
With it returning void you are forced to write something like:

   strcpy(temp, word);
   strrev(word)
   if (strcmp(word, temp)) palindrome();

but you would be better off modifying strrev to do it all in one
scan, and calling it:

   bool ispalindrome(char *word);

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