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    C sample help.

    It's a sample program that asks for a username and password. After three guesses the program shuts down if all attempts are incorrect. The username is not supposed to be case sensitive; however, I can't seem to take case sensitivity off the username.

    It's just an assessment that tests my ability to make a user-defined function. It's not a major program. Can anyone help me take case sesitivity off the username?

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    Change the given username and the acceptable username to uppercase or lowercase, then compare them.

    Look at this page...
    http://www.mathworks.com/access/help.../strcmpi.shtml
    the function on the above page, strcmpi(), is probably in the string.h file.

    The first answer is what i would do if this function didn't exist.
    Last edited by BillBoeBaggins; 12-06-2003 at 04:27 PM.

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    Code:
    void noCase(char *s, int slen){
    	int i;
    	int c;
    	for(i=0;i<slen+1;i++)
    	{
    		c = (int) *s;
    		if (c>96 && c<123){c = c - 32; *s = (char)c;};
    		s=s+1;
    	}
    }
    Here is an example with the code above

    char username[]="MyNaMe";
    noCase(&username,6);

    Now username="MYNAME". The code makes everything be capitalized. For everything you do is for each character treat it as its capitalized. e.g. if you want to compare 2 strings. After the string when through my code it will all be capitalized. Then compare them.

    Hope that helps!

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    > for(i=0;i<slen+1;i++)
    Why include the \0 at the end of the string?

    > (c>96 && c<123)
    Use islower(c)

    > c = c - 32
    Use toupper(c)
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    Just convert everything to lowercase using the tolower() function found in <cctype>.
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