Comparing a word in a string

Question

What function should I use if I need to perform an action when a certain word is NOT found AT THE START of a string? Let's say I want to perform an action if the string does not start with "The". So if:

char *str = "This is a string";

the code will perform the action. But if:

char *str = "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.";

the action will not happen.

NOTE: Case of the letters matter. The word to be compared in the string may not be separated by a space. Also, if it would affect the code in anyway, what if I need to compare the string with 2 different words?

`if (strstr(the_string, "The") != the_string)`... – Aug 14 '13 at 17:34 — , Aug 14 '13 at 17:34

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:05

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if (strncmp(str, "The", strlen("The")) 
{    
/* do some action */ 
}
else 
{
/* don't do anything */ 
}

This should do it?

Also, this is almost a duplicate of How to check if a string starts with another string in C? as pointed out by Jake Wilson

edited May 23 '17 at 12:05

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answered Aug 14 '13 at 17:38

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