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Subject: epicsStr[n]CaseCmp()
From: Andrew Johnson <[email protected]>
To: EPICS core-talk <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 17:03:06 -0500
epicsStringTest.c currently proves (amongst other things) that

    testOk1(epicsStrnCaseCmp(" ", "", 1) < 0);
    testOk1(epicsStrnCaseCmp("", " ", 1) > 0);
    testOk1(epicsStrnCaseCmp("abcd", "ABCDE", 1000) > 0);
    testOk1(epicsStrnCaseCmp("abcde", "ABCD", 1000) < 0);

    testOk1(epicsStrCaseCmp("abcd", "ABCDE") != 0);
    testOk1(epicsStrCaseCmp("abcde", "ABCD") != 0);
    testOk1(epicsStrCaseCmp("abcde", "ABCDF") != 0);

Unfortunately the first group are wrong, and glibc's str[n]casecmp()
functions on RHEL6 agree with me. Longer strings should always compare
greater than any initial subset of themselves. The second group probably
uses != because the author didn't want to think about and fix the bug at
the time...

Any comments?

- Andrew
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Re: epicsStr[n]CaseCmp() Benjamin Franksen

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