strstarts: helper function for !strncmp(str, prefix, strlen(prefix))
authorRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:05:36 +0000 (13:05 -0600)
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Tue, 31 Mar 2009 02:35:36 +0000 (13:05 +1030)
Impact: minor new API

ksplice added a "starts_with" function, which seems like a common need.
When people open-code it they seem to use fixed numbers rather than strlen,
so it's quite a readability win (also, strncmp() almost always wants != 0
on it).

So here's strstarts().

Cc: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
Cc: Jeff Arnold <jbarnold@mit.edu>
Cc: Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

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