/*** *strcmp.c - routine to compare two strings (for equal, less, or greater) * * Copyright (c) 1985-1991, Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. * *Purpose: * Compares two string, determining their lexical order. * *Revision History: * 05-31-89 JCR C version created. * 02-27-90 GJF Fixed calling type, #include , fixed * copyright. * 10-01-90 GJF New-style function declarator. * 04-01-91 SRW Add #pragma function for i386 _WIN32_ and _CRUISER_ * builds * 10-11-91 GJF Bug fix! Comparison of final bytes must use unsigned * chars. * *******************************************************************************/ #include #include #if defined(_CRUISER_) || defined(i386) #pragma function(strcmp) #endif /* ndef _CRUISER_ */ /*** *strcmp - compare two strings, returning less than, equal to, or greater than * *Purpose: * STRCMP compares two strings and returns an integer * to indicate whether the first is less than the second, the two are * equal, or whether the first is greater than the second. * * Comparison is done byte by byte on an UNSIGNED basis, which is to * say that Null (0) is less than any other character (1-255). * *Entry: * const char * src - string for left-hand side of comparison * const char * dst - string for right-hand side of comparison * *Exit: * returns -1 if src < dst * returns 0 if src == dst * returns +1 if src > dst * *Exceptions: * *******************************************************************************/ int _CALLTYPE1 strcmp ( const char * src, const char * dst ) { int ret = 0 ; while( ! (ret = *(unsigned char *)src - *(unsigned char *)dst) && *dst) ++src, ++dst; if ( ret < 0 ) ret = -1 ; else if ( ret > 0 ) ret = 1 ; return( ret ); }