From: Robert Hoehne <Robert DOT Hoehne AT Mathematik DOT TU-Chemnitz DOT DE>
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Subject: Re: "Missing" functions
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 1997 12:52:57 +0200
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Chris Croughton wrote:
> 
> Robert Hoehne wrote:
> 
> > Use strcasecmp() instead, which is more partable
> > and the same.
> 
> In what way is strcasecmp more portable than stricmp?
> I've never seen strcasecmp on any other compiler, and
> stricmp is at least standard on PC compilers and a lot
> of the older Unices (Borland, at least, had 'strcmpi'
> as a macro alias for 'stricmp').
> 
> The fact is, there is no portable case-independent
> string comparison function unless you write it yourself.
> It's one of the oddities in the ANSI library - Plauger
> just says "The set of functions is incomplete and
> inconsistent", but doesn't mention case-independent
> compare as one of the lacks.  Strange, since most
> implementations before the ANSI deliberations did
> include it (either stricmp or strcmpi, sometimes also
> combinations like strnicmp) and much of the ANSI string
> deliberations were about locale issues where case folding
> would logically have a place.

I don't know why, but probably you have misunderstood me.
I have not said, that strcasecmp is portable or any
ANSI function, I simply said that it is more partable,
because at least in the GNU programming environment this
function is known.

Robert
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