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  14    <H1>[IRCServices Coding] irc_stricmp()</H1>
  15     <B>Ekim Engin</B>
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  34 <PRE>Some older Digital-Alpha-OSF 3.1 Systems (pre bulid 483) don't have both
  35 functions by default...
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  39 Ekim &quot;Talesin&quot; Engin
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  46 &gt;<i> -----Original Message-----
  47 </I>&gt;<i> From: <A HREF="http://www.ircservices.za.net/mailman/listinfo/ircservices-coding">ircservices-coding-admin at ircservices.za.net</A>
  48 </I>&gt;<i> [mailto:<A HREF="http://www.ircservices.za.net/mailman/listinfo/ircservices-coding">ircservices-coding-admin at ircservices.za.net</A>] On
  49 </I>&gt;<i> Behalf Of Andrew Church
  50 </I>&gt;<i> Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2002 8:30 AM
  51 </I>&gt;<i> To: <A HREF="http://www.ircservices.za.net/mailman/listinfo/ircservices-coding">ircservices-coding at ircservices.za.net</A>
  52 </I>&gt;<i> Subject: Re: [IRCServices Coding] irc_stricmp()
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  54 </I>&gt;<i>
  55 </I>&gt;<i> &gt;On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Andrew Church wrote:
  56 </I>&gt;<i> &gt;
  57 </I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt; &gt;    I've been rather curious about IRCServices' irc_stricmp
  58 </I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt; &gt;function. What does it do that the regular stricmp() doesn't, and
  59 </I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt; &gt;could it be replaced safely with stricmp?
  60 </I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt;
  61 </I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt;      (1) stricmp() is (potentially) locale-dependent, and could
  62 </I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt; conceivably behave incorrectly in certain locales.
  63 </I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt;
  64 </I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt;      (2) RFC1459-compliant ircds treat [ and {, \ and |, ]
  65 </I>&gt;<i> and } as
  66 </I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt; pairwise equivalent; stricmp() doesn't.
  67 </I>&gt;<i> &gt;
  68 </I>&gt;<i> &gt;I'd also like to point out that many systems don't *have* stricmp
  69 </I>&gt;<i>
  70 </I>&gt;<i>      Well, they _do_ have strcasecmp() which is the same
  71 </I>&gt;<i> thing (and actually POSIX, I think)--I just like &quot;stricmp&quot;
  72 </I>&gt;<i> because (1) it's shorter and (2) &quot;strcasecmp&quot; sounds like
  73 </I>&gt;<i> &quot;case-sensitive string compare&quot; which is wrong.
  74 </I>&gt;<i>
  75 </I>&gt;<i>      Out of curiosity, are there any systems that don't have
  76 </I>&gt;<i> either function?
  77 </I>&gt;<i>
  78 </I>&gt;<i>   --Andrew Church
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