curl/docs/libcurl/curl_strequal.md

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c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, daniel@haxx.se, et al. SPDX-License-Identifier: curl Title: curl_strequal Section: 3 Source: libcurl See-also:

• curl_strnequal (3)
• strcasecmp (3)
• strcmp (3) Protocol:
• All Added-in: 7.1 ---

NAME

curl_strequal - compare two strings ignoring case

SYNOPSIS

#include <curl/curl.h>

int curl_strequal(const char *str1, const char *str2);

DESCRIPTION

The curl_strequal(3) function compares the two strings str1 and str2, ignoring the case of the characters. It returns a non-zero (TRUE) integer if the strings are identical.

This function uses plain ASCII based comparisons completely disregarding the locale - contrary to how strcasecmp and other system case insensitive string comparisons usually work.

This function is provided by libcurl to enable applications to compare strings in a truly portable manner. There are no standard portable case insensitive string comparison functions. This function works on all platforms.

%PROTOCOLS%

EXAMPLE

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
  const char *name = "compare";
  if(curl_strequal(name, argv[1]))
    printf("Name and input matches\n");
}

%AVAILABILITY%

RETURN VALUE

Non-zero if the strings are identical. Zero if they are not.