/*** *strnicmp.c - compare n chars of strings, ignoring case * * Copyright (c) 1985-1995, Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. * *Purpose: * defines _strnicmp() - Compares at most n characters of two strings, * without regard to case. * *Revision History: * 02-27-90 GJF Fixed calling type, #include , fixed * copyright. * 10-02-90 GJF New-style function declarator. * 01-18-91 GJF ANSI naming. * 10-11-91 GJF Bug fix! Comparison of final bytes must use unsigned * chars. * 09-03-93 GJF Replaced _CALLTYPE1 with __cdecl. * 09-21-93 CFW Avoid cast bug. * 01-13-94 CFW Fix Comments. * 10-19-94 GJF Sped up C locale. Also, made multi-thread safe. * 12-29-94 CFW Merge non-Win32. * 09-26-95 GJF New locking macro, and scheme, for functions which * reference the locale. * 11-15-95 BWT Fix _NTSUBSET_ * *******************************************************************************/ #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 if ( count ) { #if defined(_WIN32) && !defined(_NTSUBSET_) if ( __lc_handle[LC_CTYPE] == _CLOCALEHANDLE ) { #endif /* _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) && !defined(_NTSUBSET_) } 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 /* _WIN32 */ return( f - l ); } return( 0 ); }