Phil Parkin (2/8/2012)
Koen Verbeeck (2/8/2012)
banu2316 (2/7/2012)
findstring(character expression,string,occurance)!=-1wat does the condition specifies here.
That's a tautology (aka always true).
-1 is never returned by the findstring function, so this expression always yields true.
Actually, I think you might be thinking of the word truism.
Tautology is where you say the same thing twice when once is enough - eg, any sentence containing "and also" or "opening gambit."
You are referring to the rhetoric tautology, I'm referring to the logic tautology.
a tautology is a formula which is true in every possible interpretation
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