strnicmp in stl string class?

JustSomeGuy

What is the equivilent of strnicmp in the stl string class...
ie i want to do a case independant comparison of the first n characters.

Jul 22 '05 #1

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John Harrison

"JustSomeGuy" <no**@nottelling.com> wrote in message
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What is the equivilent of strnicmp in the stl string class...
ie i want to do a case independant comparison of the first n characters.

There is no case independent comparison in the STL string class. Neither is
strnicmp or any other similar function part of standard C++.

If you want to do case independent comparison you will have to do it
yourself. You could use the character functions toupper and tolower for this
purpose.

john

Jul 22 '05 #2

David Fisher

JustSomeGuy wrote:

What is the equivilent of strnicmp in the stl string class...
ie i want to do a case independant comparison of the first n characters.

See the recent thread in this news group:

From: "JKop"
Subject: "Compare without regard to case"
Posted Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:02 PM

David Fisher
Sydney, Australia

Jul 22 '05 #3

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