Comparing null-terminated string with a non null-terminated string in C

Question

The deserialization library (messagepack) I am using does not provide null-terminated strings. Instead, I get a pointer to the beginning of the string and a length. What is the

Answer 1

int compare(char *one, size_t onelen, char *two, size_t twolen)
{
int dif;

  dif = memcmp(one, two, onelen < twolen ? onelen : twolen);
  if (dif) return dif;

  if (onelen == twolen) return 0;
  return onelen > twolen? 1 : -1;
}

usage:

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int result;
char einz[4] = "einz"; // not terminated
char *zwei = "einz";   // terminated

result = compare(einz, sizeof einz, zwei, strlen(zwei));

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