ustrncmp(3alleg)

ustrncmp3alleg

Compares up to n letters of two strings. allegro game programming library.

Usage

#include <allegro.h>

int ustrncmp(const char *s1, const char *s2, int n);

Overview

This function compares up to `n' characters of `s1' and `s2'. Example:

   if (ustrncmp(prefix, long_string, ustrlen(prefix)) == 0) {
      /* long_string starts with prefix */
   }

Return value

Returns zero if the substrings are equal, a positive number if `s1' comes after `s2' in the ASCII collating sequence, else a negative number.

Releases

4 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 3.1
  2. 4.0
  3. 5.0–6.0

From liballegro-doc 2:4.2.2-2.2 in Debian 6.0 (Squeeze). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.