comparing binary numbers with strings

[Merick <Merick_TeVaran@...>]

I was wondering if there was any way - other than using a for loop to 
iterate through each character - to use the string library to compare 
two strings with representations of binary numbers and tell whether or 
not any of the 1's in the strings are in the same position?

Something like compare("11100", "00011") would return false and 
compare("11100","00111") would return true