[Proj] Modern C functions

[Gerald I. Evenden]

On Thursday 26 February 2009 11:18:37 am Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> Gerald I. Evenden wrote:
> > This is a quick probe of the programming types in this group.
> >
> > In finalizing Rel. 2.0 of geodesic and libgeodesy I ran across functions
	...
> My experience has been that all POSIX environments have these functions,
> but that Win32 (aka MSVC) instead uses strnicmp() and stricmp() to do the
> same thing.  I've lived with macros like:
>
> #ifndef EQUAL
> #if defined(WIN32) || defined(WIN32CE)
> #  define EQUALN(a,b,n)           (strnicmp(a,b,n)==0)
> #  define EQUAL(a,b)              (stricmp(a,b)==0)
> #else
> #  define EQUALN(a,b,n)           (strncasecmp(a,b,n)==0)
> #  define EQUAL(a,b)              (strcasecmp(a,b)==0)
> #endif
> #endif

It is pointless to make a tirade against a sebaceous entity seeking world 
domination, the embodiment of "Big Brother", but I cannot imagine who, what 
or why the "i" means in the name stricmp.

Sigh!

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