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34.Dd August 26, 2006
35.Dt WCSCASECMP 3
36.Os
37.Sh NAME
38.Nm wcscasecmp ,
39.Nm wcsncasecmp
40.Nd compare wide-character strings, ignoring case
41.Sh LIBRARY
42.Lb libc
43.Sh SYNOPSIS
44.In wchar.h
45.Ft int
46.Fn wcscasecmp "const wchar_t *s1" "const wchar_t *s2"
47.Ft int
48.Fn wcsncasecmp "const wchar_t *s1" "const wchar_t *s2" "size_t len"
49.Sh DESCRIPTION
50The
51.Fn wcscasecmp
52and
53.Fn wcsncasecmp
54functions
55compare the nul-terminated strings
56.Fa s1
57and
58.Fa s2
59and return an integer greater than, equal to, or less than 0,
60according to whether
61.Fa s1
62is lexicographically greater than, equal to, or less than
63.Fa s2
64after translation of each corresponding character to lower-case.
65The strings themselves are not modified.
66.Pp
67The
68.Fn wcsncasecmp
69compares at most
70.Fa len
71characters.
72.Sh SEE ALSO
73.Xr wcscmp 3
74.Sh HISTORY
75The
76.Fn wcscasecmp
77and
78.Fn wcsncasecmp
79functions first appeared in
80.Nx 4.0 .
81.Sh NOTES
82If
83.Fa len
84is zero,
85.Fn wcsncasecmp
86returns always 0.
87