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- From: ua302aa@sun1.lrz-muenchen.de (Kurt Watzka)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: stricmp()
- Date: 11 Jan 1996 13:34:24 GMT
- Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)
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- jackal@gcomm.com (Jack Alvrus) writes:
-
-
- >Here's a fun question for ya':
-
- >stricmp() is an ANSI library function, right?
-
- Not afaik.
-
- >So it should exhibit, if
- >not consistent, at least *documented* behavior, right?
-
- Since it is a non-standard function, there should be some documentation
- for it because we cannot be expected to know what it does.
-
- >My compiler's reference manual does not say one way or another, but a
- >quick test showed stricmp("a","^") < 0.
-
- All you can possibly know about your stricmp() function can be found
- in the documentation for the library that implements that function.
-
- Kurt
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