String comparisons? How?

#1 Here's one of a handful of ways of comparing the end of a string to another string. If you want to compare the start of a string with another string, there's a function called strncmp() which probably has a slightly different spelling in the Torque engine. It compares N number of characters from start of string with another string. Here's the way to do it with the ends of strings.

String A - longer than or equal to 4 characters
String B - 4 characters

1. Get length (using strlen equivilant function used in Torque engine) of String A. This value will be referred to as length.
2. (length - 1) - 4 = targetLength // this shows how much you have to skip in String A to have 4 characters left over
3. get to character that is in element "targetLength"
4. from "targetLength" character to the null character, put that string into another place to store it (or overwrite the original string)
5. Do strcmp on the now truncated String A and the original String B.

Hopefully you understand :)

Another way is you could just invert the arrangement of characters ("cow" becomes "woc") and then compare that with strncmp().

It'd effectively allow you to look at the ends of the word as if they were the fronts. Easy huh?

#2 Hey, thanks alot! I didnt think about getting the last four characters by using length-#. Its ugly, but it works, and thats what counts. :)

#3 Ya, the algorithm length-# is too inefficient.

Using a small character stack or a character queue will be much more efficient.