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BartC <bc@freeuk.com> writes:

> It just reinforces my point that strcmp by itself is unintuitive.

Matlab has a boatload of functions that shares names with functions in
the C library. Almost without exception (no pun intended) they function
in an identical manner (modulo a completely different notion of error
handling).

The exception is strcmp() which returns 1 if the two arguments are the
same, and 0 if not.

I must say, I find Matlab's way round much more intuitive, but its never
crossed my mind to whine about it.  You learn the idiosyncracy and go
about your day.