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From: NouveauIX &lt;visualxd@gmail.com&gt;
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Subject: Compare strings of different lengths without using strcmp?
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:09:00 EDT
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I'm trying to compare two strings with if statements without using strcmp.

function log=myStrCmpI(char1,char2)
c1=lower(char1);
c2=lower(char2);
if ?
    log=true;
else log=false;
end

I tried taking the sum of c1-c2 but that doesn't work for all cases, such as if the strings are the same but have a couple letters switched around.
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