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From: tomas@tuxteam.de
To: Andreas Politz <politza@fh-trier.de>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: `compare-strings' style question
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:47:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091120064721.GA30194@tomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ws1m70i8.fsf@fh-trier.de>

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On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 08:55:27PM +0100, Andreas Politz wrote:

[...]

> (defun string-prefixp (string prefix &optional ignore-case)
>   "Return t if PREFIX is a prefix of STRING."
>   (eq t
> 	(compare-strings string 0 (length prefix)
> 			 prefix 0 (length prefix)
> 			 ignore-case)))
> 
> I defined this function in one of my elisp files.  Why don't you do just
> the same ? Where is the problem.

Thanks. I'll do something along these lines when I have more than one
use. The problem is mainly with my surprise. I had the feeling I was
doing something wrong.

Regards
- -- tomás
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  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-20  6:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.11037.1258628274.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-11-19 11:39 ` `compare-strings' style question David Kastrup
2009-11-19 15:27   ` tomas
2009-11-19 19:55     ` Andreas Politz
2009-11-20  6:47       ` tomas [this message]
     [not found]   ` <mailman.11057.1258644880.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-11-19 16:17     ` David Kastrup
2009-11-19 20:54       ` Barry Margolin
2009-11-20  7:00         ` tomas
2009-11-20  8:13           ` Andreas Politz
2009-11-20  6:53       ` tomas
2009-11-19 10:50 tomas
2009-11-20  3:08 ` Kevin Rodgers
2009-11-20  7:03   ` tomas
2009-11-20 10:34     ` Kevin Rodgers
2009-11-24  9:32       ` tomas

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