First different char in two strings?

[emile at fenx.com]

Hang on, I'm sure you'll get a faster method than this! ;-)

But, being as I generally find that the obvious way is often the
fastest,
or close enough, here's the obvious:

a = "this is a test"
b = "this is not a test"
for i in range(len(a)):
  if b[i] != a[i]:
    break
print i

It-all-depends-on-the-strings-you-expect-ly y'rs,

Emile van Sebille
emile at fenx.com


Stefan Franke <spamfranke at bigfoot.de> wrote in message
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> What's the fastest way to find the first different character inside two strings?
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