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+/**
+ * slibc — Yet another C library
+ * Copyright © 2015 Mattias Andrée (maandree@member.fsf.org)
+ *
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * This program 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 General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+#include <wchar.h>
+/* TODO #include <wctype.h> */
+
+
+
+/**
+ * Compare two strings alphabetically in a case insensitive manner.
+ * Be aware, only ASCII characters are case insensitive, non-ASCII
+ * characters are case sensitive.
+ *
+ * This is a GNU-compliant slibc extension.
+ *
+ * @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 length The maximum number of characters to compare.
+ * @return Zero is returned if `a` and `b` are equal, otherwise,
+ * see the specifications for `a` and `b`.
+ */
+int wcsncasecmp(const wchar_t* a, const wchar_t* b, size_t length)
+{
+ wchar_t c1, c2;
+ for (; length--; a++, b++)
+ if (*a != *b)
+ {
+ c1 = iswalpha(*a) ? towlower(*a) : *a;
+ c2 = iswalpha(*b) ? towlower(*b) : *b;
+ if (c1 < c2) return -1;
+ if (c1 > c2) return +1;
+ }
+ else if (!*a && !*b) return 0;
+ else if (!*a) return -1;
+ else if (!*b) return +1;
+ return 0;
+}
+