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                     23: .TH STRCASECMP 3 "June 24, 1990"
                     24: .UC 7
                     25: .SH NAME
                     26: strcasecmp \- compare strings, ignoring case
                     27: .SH SYNOPSIS
                     28: .nf
                     29: .ft B
                     30: #include <string.h>
                     31: 
                     32: int
                     33: strcasecmp(const char *s1, const char *s2);
                     34: 
                     35: int
                     36: strncasecmp(const char *s1, const char *s2, size_t len);
                     37: .ft R
                     38: .fi
                     39: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     40: .B Strcasecmp
                     41: and
                     42: .B strncasecmp
                     43: compare the null-terminated strings
                     44: .I s1
                     45: and
                     46: .I s2
                     47: and return an integer greater than, equal to, or less than 0,
                     48: according as
                     49: .I s1
                     50: is lexicographically greater than, equal to, or less than
                     51: .IR s2
                     52: after translation of each corresponding character to lower-case.
                     53: The strings themselves are not modified.
                     54: The comparison is done using unsigned characters, so that '\e200'
                     55: is greater than '\e0'.
                     56: .PP
                     57: .B Strncasecmp
                     58: compares at most
                     59: .I len
                     60: characters.
                     61: .SH SEE ALSO
                     62: bcmp(3), memcmp(3), strcmp(3), strcoll(3), strxfrm(3)

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