Practical C

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Giulio Zambon, Practical C, 10.1007/978-1-4842-1769-6_8

8. Searching

Giulio Zambon¹ 

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Searches work by comparing primitive or structured data types. Therefore, it makes sense to begin this chapter with a section about comparisons.

Comparisons

In general, when discussing comparisons, you need to distinguish between numbers (including pointers), null-terminated character strings and unstructured blocks of memory, and everything else.

To compare numbers, C provides the relational operators ==, !=, >, <, >=, and <=, although, as you learned in Chapter 2, dealing with floating point numbers is tricky.

For unstructured blocks of memory and null-terminated character strings, C provides several functions, ...