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From: pwo@ztivax.UUCP (Peter W Osel)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Priority etc.
Summary: Why not use str[n]casecmp(3)?
Message-ID: <3641@ztivax.UUCP>
Date: 31 Jan 91 14:57:46 GMT
References: <3987@stl.stc.co.uk>
Reply-To: pwo%sunrise@ztivax.siemens.com (Peter W Osel)
Organization: Siemens AG, Munich, W-Germany
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In article <3987@stl.stc.co.uk> "Andrew Macpherson" <andrew@stl.stc.co.uk> writes:
>The comparisons of various header fields in elm are made with the macro
>first_word(a,b) which expands to (strncmp(a,b,strlen(b))==0)
>
>In various places different common capitalisations are tested to set (e.g.)
>the Urgency flag.
>
>I suggest this definition be changed to strincmp allowing many expressions
>to be simplified, and a better chance of Non-Urgent messages being handled
>correctly :-).
>
>A side effect is that istrcmp/strnicmp should be moved to opt_utils.c,
>and the second copy of istrcmp deleted from newalias.
>
>Proposed patch:
	[... patch deleted ...]

	Why not use the library functions strcasecmp(3) and strncasecmp(3).
As far as I understand, these functions will migrate into the standard C
libraries of all machines (at least I got them on my SUN :-).  Aren't there
public domain implementations too?  I think these functions would be faster than
istrcmp and strnicmp ...

	Ping,
		pwo
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