diff --git a/src/KOKKOS/fix_rx_kokkos.cpp b/src/KOKKOS/fix_rx_kokkos.cpp
index ac81e5c2a7..6fbdfad289 100644
--- a/src/KOKKOS/fix_rx_kokkos.cpp
+++ b/src/KOKKOS/fix_rx_kokkos.cpp
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ void FixRxKokkos<DeviceType>::init()
 
   bool eos_flag = false;
   for (int i = 0; i < modify->nfix; i++)
-    if (strcmp(modify->fix[i]->style,"eos/table/rx") == 0) eos_flag = true;
+    if (strncmp(modify->fix[i]->style,"eos/table/rx",3) == 0) eos_flag = true;
   if(!eos_flag) error->all(FLERR,"fix rx requires fix eos/table/rx to be specified");
 
   if (update_kinetics_data)
diff --git a/src/USER-DPD/fix_shardlow.cpp b/src/USER-DPD/fix_shardlow.cpp
index a1059e2fb0..f3057a6563 100644
--- a/src/USER-DPD/fix_shardlow.cpp
+++ b/src/USER-DPD/fix_shardlow.cpp
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ void FixShardlow::setup(int vflag)
       error->all(FLERR,"Cannot use constant temperature integration routines with DPD.");
 
   for (int i = 0; i < modify->nfix; i++){
-    if (strcmp(modify->fix[i]->style,"shardlow") == 0) fixShardlow = true;
+    if (strncmp(modify->fix[i]->style,"shardlow",3) == 0) fixShardlow = true;
     if (strncmp(modify->fix[i]->style,"nve",3) == 0 || (strncmp(modify->fix[i]->style,"nph",3) == 0)){
       if(fixShardlow) break;
       else error->all(FLERR,"The deterministic integrator must follow fix shardlow in the input file.");