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authorMattias Andrée <maandree@operamail.com>2015-09-02 20:00:18 +0200
committerMattias Andrée <maandree@operamail.com>2015-09-02 20:00:18 +0200
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parentfix some warnings and errors (diff)
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add memcasecmp and wmemcasecmp
Signed-off-by: Mattias Andrée <maandree@operamail.com>
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-rw-r--r--src/string/strcmp.c29
1 files changed, 29 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/string/strcmp.c b/src/string/strcmp.c
index 066b7c1..bffb2ad 100644
--- a/src/string/strcmp.c
+++ b/src/string/strcmp.c
@@ -45,6 +45,35 @@ int memcmp(const void* a, const void* b, size_t size)
/**
+ * Compare two memory segments alphabetically in a case insensitive manner.
+ *
+ * This is a slibc extension added because it was useful
+ * in implementing slibc itself.
+ *
+ * @param a A negative value is returned if this is the lesser.
+ * @param b A positive value is returned if this is the lesser.
+ * @param size The size of the segments.
+ * @return Zero is returned if `a` and `b` are equal, otherwise,
+ * see the specifications for `a` and `b`.
+ */
+int memcasecmp(const void* a, const void* b, size_t size)
+{
+ const signed char* s1 = a;
+ const signed char* s2 = b;
+ int c1, c2;
+ for (; size--; s1++, s2++)
+ if (*s1 != *s2)
+ {
+ c1 = isalpha(*s1) ? tolower(*s1) : (int)*s1;
+ c2 = isalpha(*s2) ? tolower(*s2) : (int)*s2;
+ if ((c1 -= c2))
+ return c1;
+ }
+ return 0;
+}
+
+
+/**
* Compare two strings alphabetically in a case sensitive manner.
*
* @param a A negative value is returned if this is the lesser.