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Old 11-02-2003, 01:51 PM   #1
danxl
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compare string in C++


How to do case sensitive/insensitive string comparation with std::string?

and, how to convert string upper case or lower case?
 
Old 11-02-2003, 02:04 PM   #2
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Code:
int strcmp_nocase (const string S1, const string S2)
{
	string::const_iterator p1 = S1.begin ();
	string::const_iterator p2 = S2.begin ();

	while (p1 != S1.end () && p2  != S2.end ())
	{
		if (toupper (*p1) != toupper (*p2))
		{
			if (toupper (*p1) < toupper (*p2))
			{
				return -1;
			}
			else
			{
				return 1;
			}
		}
		++p1;
		++p2;
	}
	if (S1.size () == S2.size ())
	{
		return 0;
	}
	else if (S1.size () < S2.size ())
	{
		return -1;
	}
	else
	{
		return 1;
	}
}
you should be able to tweek the code to do case sensitive comparisons. you can also see there are ways to toupper (tolower would be the same) a string. not too hard.

Last edited by megaspaz; 11-02-2003 at 02:10 PM.
 
Old 11-02-2003, 02:10 PM   #3
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Thanks to you reply.
Just wonder why codes like this is not included in the std C++ library.
 
Old 11-02-2003, 02:14 PM   #4
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if you grabbed the to_lcase, to_ucase code, i wouldn't use it. there's a memory leak in both of those. that's why i took it down.
 
  


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