Copyright (c) 1990 The Regents of the University of California.
All rights reserved.

This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by
Chris Torek.

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@(#)strncmp.3 5.1 (Berkeley) 05/15/90

C 4 strncmp - compare strings of limited length

#include <string.h>

int
strcmp(const char *s1, const char *s2, size_t len);

Strncmp compares at most len characters in the null-terminated strings s1 and s2 and returns an integer greater than, equal to, or less than 0, according as s1 is lexicographically greater than, equal to, or less than s2 . The comparison is done using unsigned characters, so that '\e200' is greater than '\e0'. bcmp(3), memcmp(3), strcasecmp(3), strcmp(3), strcoll(3), strncasecmp(3), strxfrm(3) Strncmp conforms to ANSI X3.159-1989 (``ANSI C'').