From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: strcoll()
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 1997 13:15:11 -0800
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Mike Evanoff wrote:

> Yes - I am confused myself.  My interpretation was that it would look
< for a
> match between s1 and s2, where the function prototype is:
> 
>         int strcoll(const char *s1, const char *s2);
> 
> and return 0 if s1=s2, >0 or <0 depending on s1>s2 or visa versa....

Correct.  strcoll does the exactly analogous thing that strcmp does,
except strcoll is sensitive to the current "locale."  strcmp merely does
an ASCII compare.

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