[OCLUG-devel] Lexicographically Sorted

[Chris Berry]

I'm supposed to write a C program that works similiar to strcmp, book 
definition follows:

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Compares two strings s1 and s2 lexicographically.  The elements of the 
strings are treated as unsigned characters.  The function returns a 
value that is less than, equal to, or greater than zero, depending on 
whether s1 is lexicographically less than, equal to, or greater than s2.
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No problem, except I haven't been able to figure out what lexicographic 
ordering is.  I know how to sort alphabetically and ASCIIbetically, but 
lexicographically is a new one.  When I looked on google, it seemed like 
everyone thought it was so obvious it didn't need to be explained.  Can 
someone clue me in here?

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