This is the mail archive of the
cygwin-apps
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
Re: Change Setup's package search field to case-insensitive
On Jun 26 16:26, Dave Korn wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Jun 26 10:48, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >> On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 02:45:48PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
> >>> Andrew Schulman wrote:
> >>>>> So, if there's no compelling reason to keep the search case-sensitive, I
> >>>>> will change it to case-insensitive.
> >>>> Yes, please.
> >>> Seconded. Entirely sensible.
> >> Ditto.
> >>
> >> To address the issue of StrStri, I am surprised that msvcrt doesn't have
> >> something like this but, since it doesn't, I agree that it makes sense
> >> to use whatever the OS provides.
> >
> > msvcrt only supports strstr, not strcasestr, unfortunately.
>
> You're looking for "stricmp", the non-posix name MS uses for the equivalent
> functionality.
stricmp == strcasecmp
stricmp != strcasestr
Corinna
--
Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat