TEST_STRING_EQUAL method

[mity]

TEST_STRING_EQUAL method

[mity]

One of the original motivations for Acutest was my dislike of baroque interfaces in existing solutions which provide a comparison macro for every combination of type and comparison operator and sometime even for some other aspect of the test (e.g. assert-like versus check-like behavior).

See e.g. https://github.com/ThrowTheSwitch/Unity/blob/ae8b98e80b716eb6c627f1c98261ffe9f9d3acca/src/unity.h#L124 for an example what I mean.

To clarify: that's not meant as an objective criticism, it's just a matter of my subjective taste.

I am willing to make some concessions where there is a wide consensus that the potential benefit outweighs the purity of the interface (and the string comparison might perhaps be that case).

But let me state clearly that I don't want to end up with the dozens of comparison macros like in the linked example.

And actually even here I am wondering whether you are proposing just the one macro, or implicitly also TEST_STRING_NOT_EQUAL, TEST_STRING_LOWER_THAN, TEST_STRING_EQUAL_OR_LOWER_THAN etc. and then ditto for case insensitive comparison and then....

[gahr]

In NeoMutt we have this:

https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/blob/9222c6019c7fa3839008e9c6931666b8c81464de/test/address/common.h#L32-L40