NAME    [Toc]    [Back]

     strcasecmp, strncasecmp - compare strings, ignoring case

SYNOPSIS    [Toc]    [Back]

     #include <string.h>

     int
     strcasecmp(const char *s1, const char *s2);

     int
     strncasecmp(const char *s1, const char *s2, size_t len);

DESCRIPTION    [Toc]    [Back]

     The strcasecmp() and  strncasecmp()  functions  compare  the
null-terminated
     strings  s1 and s2 and return an integer greater than, equal
to, or less
     than 0, according to whether s1 is lexicographically greater
than, equal
     to,  or less than s2 after translation of each corresponding
character to
     lower-case.  The strings themselves are not  modified.   The
comparison is
     done  using  unsigned  characters,  so that `200' is greater
than ` '.

     strncasecmp() compares at most len characters.

SEE ALSO    [Toc]    [Back]

     bcmp(3), memcmp(3), strcmp(3), strcoll(3), strxfrm(3)

HISTORY    [Toc]    [Back]

     The strcasecmp() and strncasecmp() functions first  appeared
in 4.4BSD.

OpenBSD      3.6                           June      9,      1993