G'Day Peter,
 
-=> Quoting Peter Collis to Frank Adam <=-

 PC> If you mean VB/WIN maybe compiler is not the word to use here.
:) 
You don't have to bag VB, i've never sweared at a program as much as to 
this bloody thing.:)
 
 FA> Btw, basic does have it's strcmp like function now, with a nice
 FA> touch, where an optional argument can determine binary or
 FA> textual comparison,that  eliminates the need for a separate
 FA> stricmp() like function.  There's also "like" and
"is" both of
 FA> which returns boolean or NULL.

 PC> This must have been added in VB4 as i can't remember ever seeing it in
 PC> VB3, my example applied more to QB45/BAS-7 than to the Win versions of
 PC> basic.

Well, for Like and IS, operator is a better word, i've just posted the C 
version for Like, by this time you'd have seen it, and IS seems like an 
overloaded '=' operator, that it can be used to compare any object.
StrComp, is int StrComp(char*,char*,int bin|txt); returning -1,0,1.

3 or so years back i stopped using Basic, and never looked back, now i find 
that VB changed so much, i have to learn as i go.Unfortunately i have to make 
a windows program for someone and my knowledge in WinC++ is rather limited.

VB is much improved, but still has a very awkward syntax, the only thing i 
like (or used to) in basic is the string handling, but after numerous checks
for if str = Null falling through, i found a note: Quote -The expression 
"if str = Null" will always evaluate to False as Null is False in
itself-.. 
then i cried for a while...
                                                      
  L8r Frank (fadam{at}ozemail.com.au).

Ps: we'll have to chat about C programming one day ;-)                     
                      
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