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+/* Case-insensitive string comparison functions in C locale.
+ Copyright (C) 1995-1996, 2001, 2003, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+ This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
+ the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+ any later version.
+
+ This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
+
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
+ along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
+ Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. */
+
+#ifndef C_STRCASE_H
+#define C_STRCASE_H
+
+#include <stddef.h>
+
+
+/* The functions defined in this file assume the "C" locale and a character
+ set without diacritics (ASCII-US or EBCDIC-US or something like that).
+ Even if the "C" locale on a particular system is an extension of the ASCII
+ character set (like on BeOS, where it is UTF-8, or on AmigaOS, where it
+ is ISO-8859-1), the functions in this file recognize only the ASCII
+ characters. More precisely, one of the string arguments must be an ASCII
+ string; the other one can also contain non-ASCII characters (but then
+ the comparison result will be nonzero). */
+
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+extern "C" {
+#endif
+
+
+/* Compare strings S1 and S2, ignoring case, returning less than, equal to or
+ greater than zero if S1 is lexicographically less than, equal to or greater
+ than S2. */
+extern int c_strcasecmp (const char *s1, const char *s2);
+
+/* Compare no more than N characters of strings S1 and S2, ignoring case,
+ returning less than, equal to or greater than zero if S1 is
+ lexicographically less than, equal to or greater than S2. */
+extern int c_strncasecmp (const char *s1, const char *s2, size_t n);
+
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+}
+#endif
+
+
+#endif /* C_STRCASE_H */