genericopenlibs/cstdlib/LCHAR/STRCOLL.C
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/*
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* Copyright (c) 1997-2009 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies).
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* All rights reserved.
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* This component and the accompanying materials are made available
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* under the terms of "Eclipse Public License v1.0"
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* which accompanies this distribution, and is available
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* at the URL "http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html".
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*
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* Initial Contributors:
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* Nokia Corporation - initial contribution.
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*
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* Contributors:
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*
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* Description:
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* FUNCTION
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* <<strcoll>>---locale specific character string compare
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* INDEX
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* strcoll
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* ANSI_SYNOPSIS
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* #include <string.h>
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* int strcoll(const char *<[stra]>, const char * <[strb]>);
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* TRAD_SYNOPSIS
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* #include <string.h>
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* int strcoll(<[stra]>, <[strb]>)
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* char *<[stra]>;
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* char *<[strb]>;
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* <<strcoll>> compares the string pointed to by <[stra]> to
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* the string pointed to by <[strb]>, using an interpretation
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* appropriate to the current <<LC_COLLATE>> state.
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* RETURNS
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* If the first string is greater than the second string,
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* <<strcoll>> returns a number greater than zero.  If the two
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* strings are equivalent, <<strcoll>> returns zero.  If the first
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* string is less than the second string, <<strcoll>> returns a
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* number less than zero.
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* PORTABILITY
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* <<strcoll>> is ANSI C.
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* <<strcoll>> requires no supporting OS subroutines.
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* QUICKREF
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* strcoll ansi pure
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* 
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*
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*/
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#include <string.h>
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/**
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Compares a to b character by character according to the character table 
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set by current locale.
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This function starts comparing the first character of each string. 
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If they are equal to each other continues with the following pair
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until the characters differ or until end of string is reached.
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@return a value indicating the lexicographical relation between the strings
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@param a Null-terminated string to compare. 
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@param b Null-terminated string to compare.
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*/
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EXPORT_C int
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strcoll (const char *a, const char *b)
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{
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  /* Since we don't yet support locales, this is easy! */
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  return strcmp (a, b);
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}