#include <stdio.h> int custom_strcmp(const char *a, const char *b) { // Your logic here while ((*a == *b) && (*a != '\0') && (*b != '\0')) { a++; b++; } return (int) (*a - *b); } int main() { char a[101], b[101]; fgets(a, sizeof(a), stdin); fgets(b, sizeof(b), stdin); // Remove newline int i = 0; while (a[i]) { if (a[i] == '\n') { a[i] = '\0'; break; } i++; } i = 0; while (b[i]) { if (b[i] == '\n') { b[i] = '\0'; break; } i++; } printf("%d", custom_strcmp(a, b)); return 0; }
use a and b as pointers and compare the chars they point to,
until one off them expires or the chars are different
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apple apple
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0