What is the proper function for comparing two C-style strings?

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For general string comparisons, strcmp is the appropriate function. You should use strncmp to only compare some number of characters from a string (for example, a prefix), and memcmp to compare blocks of memory.

That said, since you’re using C++, you should avoid this altogether and use the std::string class, which is much easier to use and generally safer than C-style strings. You can compare two std::strings for equality easily by just using the == operator.

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