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diff --git a/man3/strcmp.3 b/man3/strcmp.3 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..80081d7e1 --- /dev/null +++ b/man3/strcmp.3 @@ -0,0 +1,61 @@ +.\" Copyright 1993 David Metcalfe (david@prism.demon.co.uk) +.\" +.\" Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this +.\" manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are +.\" preserved on all copies. +.\" +.\" Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this +.\" manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the +.\" entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a +.\" permission notice identical to this one. +.\" +.\" Since the Linux kernel and libraries are constantly changing, this +.\" manual page may be incorrect or out-of-date. The author(s) assume no +.\" responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from +.\" the use of the information contained herein. The author(s) may not +.\" have taken the same level of care in the production of this manual, +.\" which is licensed free of charge, as they might when working +.\" professionally. +.\" +.\" Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by +.\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work. +.\" +.\" References consulted: +.\" Linux libc source code +.\" Lewine's _POSIX Programmer's Guide_ (O'Reilly & Associates, 1991) +.\" 386BSD man pages +.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 18:08:52 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) +.\" Modified 2001-08-31, aeb +.\" +.TH STRCMP 3 1993-04-11 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.SH NAME +strcmp, strncmp \- compare two strings +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.B #include <string.h> +.sp +.BI "int strcmp(const char *" s1 ", const char *" s2 ); +.sp +.BI "int strncmp(const char *" s1 ", const char *" s2 ", size_t " n ); +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +The \fBstrcmp()\fP function compares the two strings \fIs1\fP and +\fIs2\fP. It returns an integer less than, equal to, or greater +than zero if \fIs1\fP is found, respectively, to be less than, +to match, or be greater than \fIs2\fP. +.PP +The \fBstrncmp()\fP function is similar, except it only compares +the first (at most) \fIn\fP characters of \fIs1\fP and \fIs2\fP. +.SH "RETURN VALUE" +The \fBstrcmp()\fP and \fBstrncmp()\fP functions return an integer +less than, equal to, or greater than zero if \fIs1\fP (or the first +\fIn\fP bytes thereof) is found, respectively, to be less than, to +match, or be greater than \fIs2\fP. +.SH "CONFORMING TO" +SVID 3, POSIX, BSD 4.3, ISO 9899 +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.BR bcmp (3), +.BR memcmp (3), +.BR strcasecmp (3), +.BR strcoll (3), +.BR strncasecmp (3) |