[patch] add ip addr del alias for delete [was: Re: ipaddr applet query]

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, Rob Landley wrote:

> We need a library function that does some variant of:
>
> int submatch(char *test, char *str)
> {
>   if (!*test) return 0;
>   for(;;) {
>     if (!*test) return 1;
>     if (!*str) return 0;
>     if (*(test++) != *(str++)) return 0;
>   }
> }
>
> And then submatch(input,"walrus") should match "walrus", "walru",
> "walr", "wal", "wa", and "w".

it's not that simple.  what you *really* want is a feature that allows
one to use the shortest unique prefix across all possible keywords.
and, no, i'm not about to submit a patch. :-)

rday