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raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) writes:
> Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> So what you're saying is, Matlab is incapable of telling you whether a
> string comes before or after another string? Well, there goes the sorted
> list...

Quoting https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/strcmp.html :

    With string arrays, you can use relational operators (==, ~=,
    <, >, <=, >=) instead of strcmp. You can compare and sort string
    arrays just as you can with numeric arrays.

I don't now how Matlab deals with strings and arrays, but I presume this
gives you the ability to do something like C's strcmp().

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