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34.Dd $Mdocdate: July 16 2013 $
35.Dt WCSCASECMP 3
36.Os
37.Sh NAME
38.Nm wcscasecmp ,
39.Nm wcsncasecmp
40.Nd compare wide strings, ignoring case
41.Sh SYNOPSIS
42.In wchar.h
43.Ft int
44.Fn wcscasecmp "const wchar_t *s1" "const wchar_t *s2"
45.Ft int
46.Fn wcsncasecmp "const wchar_t *s1" "const wchar_t *s2" "size_t len"
47.Sh DESCRIPTION
48The
49.Fn wcscasecmp
50and
51.Fn wcsncasecmp
52functions compare the wide strings
53.Fa s1
54and
55.Fa s2
56and return an integer greater than, equal to, or less than 0,
57according to whether
58.Fa s1
59is lexicographically greater than, equal to, or less than
60.Fa s2
61after translation of each corresponding wide character to lower case.
62The wide strings themselves are not modified.
63.Pp
64.Fn wcsncasecmp
65compares at most
66.Fa len
67wide characters.
68.Sh SEE ALSO
69.Xr strcasecmp 3 ,
70.Xr wcscmp 3 ,
71.Xr wmemcmp 3
72.Sh STANDARDS
73The
74.Fn wcscasecmp
75and
76.Fn wcsncasecmp
77functions conform to
78.St -p1003.1-2008 .
79.Sh HISTORY
80The
81.Fn wcscasecmp
82and
83.Fn wcsncasecmp
84functions first appeared in
85.Ox 5.0 .
86.Sh AUTHORS
87The
88.Ox
89versions of
90.Fn wcscasecmp
91and
92.Fn wcsncasecmp
93were implemented by
94.An Marc Espie Aq Mt espie@openbsd.org .
95