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.\"	The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
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.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by
.\" Chris Torek.
.\" %sccs.include.redist.man%
.\"
.\"     @(#)strcasecmp.3	8.1 (Berkeley) 06/09/93
.\"
.Dd 
.Dt STRCASECMP 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm strcasecmp
.Nd compare strings, ignoring case
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Fd #include <string.h>
.Ft int
.Fn strcasecmp "const char *s1" "const char *s2"
.Ft int
.Fn strncasecmp "const char *s1" "const char *s2" "size_t len"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Fn strcasecmp
and
.Fn strncasecmp
functions
compare the null-terminated strings
.Fa s1
and
.Fa s2
and return an integer greater than, equal to, or less than 0,
according as
.Fa s1
is lexicographically greater than, equal to, or less than
.Fa 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
.Sq Li \e200
is greater than
.Ql \e0 .
.Pp
The
.Fn strncasecmp
compares at most
.Fa len
characters.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr bcmp 3 ,
.Xr memcmp 3 ,
.Xr strcmp 3 ,
.Xr strcoll 3 ,
.Xr strxfrm 3
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Fn strcasecmp
and
.Fn strncasecmp
functions first appeared in 4.4BSD.