comparing strings: case INsensitive

I'm trying to write a program that takes in a list of names and ages, then searches for a certain first name and last name. However, in the problem prompt, it requires that the comparison between the name and search value to be case insensitive. I've tried stricmp() but I don't think the compiler I'm using uses it (GCC). Here's my code for my search() function so far.

Code:

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int search( char names[20][20], int ages[20], char value[20], int *totAges )
{
  char tempArr[20];
  int rCtr = 0;
  int cCtr = 0;
  int ctr = 0;
  int ageCtr = 0;

  for( rCtr = 0; rCtr < 20; rCtr++ ) {
    strcpy( tempArr, names[rCtr] );
    if( !strcmp( tempArr, value ) ) {
      ctr++;
      printf( "%d\n", ages[rCtr] );
      ageCtr += ages[rCtr];
    }
  }
  *totAges = ageCtr;

  return ctr;
}

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Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

strcasecmp()

Thanks! Works perfectly now.

No problem. Just be aware that strcasecmp() is not portable. So outside of GCC your code may not even work. But its all good, you didn't seem like that was an issue.

It's Posix portable at least: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/...trcasecmp.html

gg

And many other compilers have "stricmp" that does the same thing.

And it's not terribly hard to do the same thing if you need to.

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Mats

How comes there is stricmp() in MinGW?

MinGW uses the Microsoft CRT (that comes with VC 6.0, msvcrt.dll), and exposes all of its functionality.

gg