curl/docs/libcurl/curl_strnequal.md
Daniel Stenberg eefcc1bda4
docs: introduce "curldown" for libcurl man page format
curldown is this new file format for libcurl man pages. It is markdown
inspired with differences:

- Each file has a set of leading headers with meta-data
- Supports a small subset of markdown
- Uses .md file extensions for editors/IDE/GitHub to treat them nicely
- Generates man pages very similar to the previous ones
- Generates man pages that still convert nicely to HTML on the website
- Detects and highlights mentions of curl symbols automatically (when
  their man page section is specified)

tools:

- cd2nroff: converts from curldown to nroff man page
- nroff2cd: convert an (old) nroff man page to curldown
- cdall: convert many nroff pages to curldown versions
- cd2cd: verifies and updates a curldown to latest curldown

This setup generates .3 versions of all the curldown versions at build time.

CI:

Since the documentation is now technically markdown in the eyes of many
things, the CI runs many more tests and checks on this documentation,
including proselint, link checkers and tests that make sure we capitalize the
first letter after a period...

Closes #12730
2024-01-23 00:29:02 +01:00

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---
c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel.se>, et al.
SPDX-License-Identifier: curl
Title: curl_strequal
Section: 3
Source: libcurl
See-also:
- strcasecmp (3)
- strcmp (3)
---
# NAME
curl_strequal, curl_strnequal - case insensitive string comparisons
# SYNOPSIS
~~~c
#include <curl/curl.h>
int curl_strequal(const char *str1, const char *str2);
int curl_strnequal(const char *str1, const char *str2, size_t length);
~~~
# 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.
The **curl_strnequal()** function is similar, except it only compares the
first *length* characters of *str1*.
These functions are provided by libcurl to enable applications to compare
strings in a truly portable manner. There are no standard portable case
insensitive string comparison functions. These two work on all platforms.
# EXAMPLE
~~~c
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
const char *name = "compare";
if(curl_strequal(name, argv[1]))
printf("Name and input matches\n");
if(curl_strnequal(name, argv[1], 5))
printf("Name and input matches in the 5 first bytes\n");
}
~~~
# AVAILABILITY
Always
# RETURN VALUE
Non-zero if the strings are identical. Zero if they are not.