How to compare strings against static char arrays?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Jonathan M Davis" <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> wrote in message 
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>> "Andrej Mitrovic" <none at none.none> wrote in message
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>> > Nick Sabalausky Wrote:
>> >> "Andrej Mitrovic" <none at none.none> wrote in message
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>> >>
>> >> > E.g.:
>> >> >
>> >> > void main()
>> >> > {
>> >> >
>> >> >    char[10] blue = "blue      ";
>> >> >    assert(blue == "blue");
>> >> >
>> >> > }
>> >> >
>> >> > Obviously these two are different, but what function can I use to
>> >> > compare
>> >> > strings in situations where whitespace is the delimiter?
>> >>
>> >> assert(strip(blue) == "blue");
>> >>
>> >> Is that what you need or did I misunderstand?
>> >
>> > Yup. blue[].strip (slice is needed).
>> >
>> > And here I was desperately trying to find the trim() function. Thanks!
>>
>> Yea, I keep trying to do trim(), too. Hard habit to break :)
>
> That's one of those functions that is quite common among many languages 
> but is
> often not called quite the same thing. So, if you're used to a particular
> name, and the language chose another, then you're constantly thrown off by 
> it
> until you use it enough that it sticks. But if they'd picked the name that
> you're used to, then someone else would have been constantly thrown off
> instead, since they were used to languages/libraries that used the first 
> name.
> So, you can't really win.
>

Yup, absolutely. For me, until about a year ago, I had spent a lot of time 
with Tango, which uses "trim", and I do a lot of work in Haxe which IIRC 
also uses "trim", so that's why my brain still keeps reaching for "trim".