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ustrnicmp(3)

ustrnicmp – Compares up to n letters of two strings ignoring case. Allegro game programming library.

Synopsis

#include <allegro.h>

int ustrnicmp(const char *s1, const char *s2, int n);

Description

This function compares up to `n’ characters of `s1′ and `s2′, ignoring case. Example:

if (ustrnicmp(prefix, long_string, ustrlen(prefix)) == 0) {
    /* long_string starts with prefix (ignoring case) */
}

Return Value

Returns zero if the strings are equal, a positive number if `s1′ comes after `s2′ in the ASCII collating sequence, else a negative number.

See Also

uconvert(3), ustrsize(3), ustrsizez(3), ustricmp(3), ustrcmp(3), ustrncmp(3)