strcasecmp, strncasecmp — compare two strings ignoring case
#include <strings.h>
int
strcasecmp( |
const char *s1, |
const char *s2); |
int
strncasecmp( |
const char *s1, |
| const char *s2, | |
size_t n); |
The strcasecmp() function
performs a byte-by-byte comparison of the strings s1 and s2, ignoring the case of the
characters. It returns an integer less than, equal to, or
greater than zero if s1 is found, respectively, to
be less than, to match, or be greater than s2.
The strncasecmp() function
is similar, except that it compares no more than n bytes of s1 and s2.
The strcasecmp() and
strncasecmp() functions return
an integer less than, equal to, or greater than zero if
s1 is, after ignoring
case, found to be less than, to match, or be greater than
s2, respectively.
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).
| Interface | Attribute | Value |
strcasecmp(), strncasecmp() |
Thread safety | MT-Safe locale |
The strcasecmp() and
strncasecmp() functions first
appeared in 4.4BSD, where they were declared in <string.h>
Thus, for reasons of historical compatibility, the glibc
<string.h>
header file also declares these functions, if the
_DEFAULT_SOURCE (or, in glibc
2.19 and earlier, _BSD_SOURCE)
feature test macro is defined.
The POSIX.1-2008 standard says of these functions:
When the
LC_CTYPEcategory of the locale being used is from the POSIX locale, these functions shall behave as if the strings had been converted to lowercase and then a byte comparison performed. Otherwise, the results are unspecified.
bcmp(3), memcmp(3), strcmp(3), strcoll(3), string(3), strncmp(3), wcscasecmp(3), wcsncasecmp(3)
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