ustrncmp (3) Linux Manual Page

ustrncmp – Compares up to n letters of two strings. Allegro game programming library.

Synopsis

#include <allegro.h>

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

Description

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

if (ustrncmp(prefix, long_string, ustrlen(prefix)) == 0) {
    /* long_string starts with prefix */
}

Return Value

Returns zero if the substrings 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), ustrcmp(3), ustricmp(3), ustrnicmp(3)