/*** *strnicmp.c - compare n chars of strings, ignoring case * * Copyright (c) 1985-1997, Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. * *Purpose: * defines _strnicmp() - Compares at most n characters of two strings, * without regard to case. * *******************************************************************************/ #include #include #ifdef _WIN32 #include #include #include #include #endif /* _WIN32 */ /*** *int _strnicmp(first, last, count) - compares count char of strings, ignore case * *Purpose: * Compare the two strings for lexical order. Stops the comparison * when the following occurs: (1) strings differ, (2) the end of the * strings is reached, or (3) count characters have been compared. * For the purposes of the comparison, upper case characters are * converted to lower case. * *Entry: * char *first, *last - strings to compare * size_t count - maximum number of characters to compare * *Exit: * returns <0 if first < last * returns 0 if first == last * returns >0 if first > last * *Exceptions: * *******************************************************************************/ int __cdecl _strnicmp ( const char * first, const char * last, size_t count ) { int f,l; #ifdef _MT int local_lock_flag; #endif /* _MT */ if ( count ) { #if defined (_WIN32) if ( __lc_handle[LC_CTYPE] == _CLOCALEHANDLE ) { #endif /* defined (_WIN32) */ do { if ( ((f = (unsigned char)(*(first++))) >= 'A') && (f <= 'Z') ) f -= 'A' - 'a'; if ( ((l = (unsigned char)(*(last++))) >= 'A') && (l <= 'Z') ) l -= 'A' - 'a'; } while ( --count && f && (f == l) ); #if defined (_WIN32) } else { _lock_locale( local_lock_flag ) do { f = _tolower_lk( (unsigned char)(*(first++)) ); l = _tolower_lk( (unsigned char)(*(last++)) ); } while (--count && f && (f == l) ); _unlock_locale( local_lock_flag ) } #endif /* defined (_WIN32) */ return( f - l ); } return( 0 ); }