On Fri, May 29, 2026 at 1:00 PM Jim Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > [..] > > By "the case sensitive stuff," if you mean how to compare two strings > while ignoring case, you can use strcasecmp() in Open Watcom C. Here's > a demo program: > > #include <stdio.h> > #include <string.h> /* strcmp */ > #include <strings.h> /* strcasecmp - Open Watcom C */ > > int main() > { > printf("strcmp: ABC & abc = %d\n", strcmp("ABC","abc")); > printf("strcasecmp: ABC & abc = %d\n", strcasecmp("ABC","abc")); > > return 0; > } > [..]
Just because I like to use BCC sometimes, I checked - strcasecmp() exists in BCC too. The above sample program compiles fine on BCC on FreeDOS, too. :-) On Fri, May 29, 2026 at 1:00 PM Jim Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, May 28, 2026 at 6:23 PM victoria crenshaw via Freedos-devel > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > [..] > > > > for Jerome i need to do a voice call to add in the error levels, the ctrl+c > > stuff, and the case sensitive stuff with you! :D when your free in June. I > > am not available for a bit because i got an event named VCFSW to go to and > > table at! :D > > > > > By "the case sensitive stuff," if you mean how to compare two strings > while ignoring case, you can use strcasecmp() in Open Watcom C. Here's > a demo program: > > #include <stdio.h> > #include <string.h> /* strcmp */ > #include <strings.h> /* strcasecmp - Open Watcom C */ > > int main() > { > printf("strcmp: ABC & abc = %d\n", strcmp("ABC","abc")); > printf("strcasecmp: ABC & abc = %d\n", strcasecmp("ABC","abc")); > > return 0; > } > > > In Open Watcom C, you can also use _stricmp() which is the same > function, but included by <string.h>. The stricmp() function is > deprecated, same for strcmpi(), and you should use _stricmp() instead. > > > In Borland, the function is stricmp() or strcmpi() -- they are the > same function, but strcmpi() is actually a macro to stricmp(). _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
