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25.\" References consulted:
26.\" Linux libc source code
27.\" Lewine's _POSIX Programmer's Guide_ (O'Reilly & Associates, 1991)
28.\" 386BSD man pages
29.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 18:12:45 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
eae2dfce 30.TH STRCASECMP 3 2012-05-10 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
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31.SH NAME
32strcasecmp, strncasecmp \- compare two strings ignoring case
33.SH SYNOPSIS
34.nf
35.B #include <strings.h>
36.sp
37.BI "int strcasecmp(const char *" s1 ", const char *" s2 );
38.sp
39.BI "int strncasecmp(const char *" s1 ", const char *" s2 ", size_t " n );
40.fi
41.SH DESCRIPTION
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42The
43.BR strcasecmp ()
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44function compares the two strings
45.I s1
46and
47.IR s2 ,
48ignoring the case of the characters.
c13182ef 49It returns an integer
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50less than, equal to, or greater than zero if
51.I s1
52is found,
53respectively, to be less than, to match, or be greater than
54.IR s2 .
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56The
57.BR strncasecmp ()
33a0ccb2 58function is similar, except it compares
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59the only first
60.I n
61bytes of
62.IR s1 .
47297adb 63.SH RETURN VALUE
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64The
65.BR strcasecmp ()
66and
67.BR strncasecmp ()
68functions return
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69an integer less than, equal to, or greater than zero if
70.I s1
71(or the first
72.I n
73bytes thereof) is found, respectively, to be
74less than, to match, or be greater than
75.IR s2 .
47297adb 76.SH CONFORMING TO
44a2c328 774.4BSD, POSIX.1-2001.
47297adb 78.SH SEE ALSO
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79.BR bcmp (3),
80.BR memcmp (3),
81.BR strcmp (3),
82.BR strcoll (3),
d095200e 83.BR string (3),
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84.BR strncmp (3),
85.BR wcscasecmp (3),
86.BR wcsncasecmp (3)