/* strncasecmp.c -- case insensitive string comparator Copyright (C) 1998-1999, 2005-2007, 2009-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This file is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this program. If not, see . */ #include /* Specification. */ #include #include #include /* Compare no more than N bytes of strings S1 and S2, ignoring case, returning less than, equal to or greater than zero if S1 is lexicographically less than, equal to or greater than S2. Note: This function cannot work correctly in multibyte locales. */ int strncasecmp (const char *s1, const char *s2, size_t n) { register const unsigned char *p1 = (const unsigned char *) s1; register const unsigned char *p2 = (const unsigned char *) s2; unsigned char c1, c2; if (p1 == p2 || n == 0) return 0; do { c1 = tolower (*p1); c2 = tolower (*p2); if (--n == 0 || c1 == '\0') break; ++p1; ++p2; } while (c1 == c2); if (UCHAR_MAX <= INT_MAX) return c1 - c2; else /* On machines where 'char' and 'int' are types of the same size, the difference of two 'unsigned char' values - including the sign bit - doesn't fit in an 'int'. */ return _GL_CMP (c1, c2); }