NAME
wcscmp, wcsncmp
— compare wide
strings
SYNOPSIS
#include
<wchar.h>
int
wcscmp(const
wchar_t *s1, const
wchar_t *s2);
int
wcsncmp(const
wchar_t *s1, const
wchar_t *s2, size_t
len);
DESCRIPTION
The
wcscmp()
and
wcsncmp()
functions lexicographically compare the wide strings
s1 and s2. The
wcsncmp() function compares at most
len wide characters.
RETURN VALUES
The wcscmp() and
wcsncmp() functions return an integer greater than,
equal to, or less than 0, according to whether the wide string
s1 is greater than, equal to, or less than the wide
string s2.
SEE ALSO
STANDARDS
The wcscmp() and
wcsncmp() functions conform to
ISO/IEC 9899:1999 (“ISO C99”)
and were first introduced in ISO/IEC 9899/AMD1:1995
(“ISO C90, Amendment 1”).
HISTORY
The wcscmp() and
wcsncmp() functions were ported from
NetBSD and first appeared in
OpenBSD 3.8.