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.\" Copyright 1993 David Metcalfe (david@prism.demon.co.uk)
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.\" Linux libc source code
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.\" Lewine's _POSIX Programmer's Guide_ (O'Reilly & Associates, 1991)
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.\" 386BSD man pages
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.\" Modified Sun Jul 25 10:40:44 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
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.TH STRCOLL 3 2010-09-20 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
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.SH NAME
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strcoll \- compare two strings using the current locale
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.nf
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.B #include <string.h>
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.sp
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.BI "int strcoll(const char *" s1 ", const char *" s2 );
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.fi
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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The
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.BR strcoll ()
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function compares the two strings
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.I s1
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and
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.IR s2 .
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It returns an integer less than, equal to, or greater
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than zero if
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.I s1
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is found, respectively, to be less than,
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to match, or be greater than
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.IR s2 .
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The comparison is based on
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strings interpreted as appropriate for the program's current locale
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for category
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.BR LC_COLLATE .
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(See
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.BR setlocale (3).)
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.SH RETURN VALUE
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The
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.BR strcoll ()
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function returns an integer less than, equal to,
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or greater than zero if
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.I s1
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is found, respectively, to be less
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than, to match, or be greater than
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.IR s2 ,
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when both are interpreted
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as appropriate for the current locale.
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.SH CONFORMING TO
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SVr4, 4.3BSD, C89, C99.
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.SH NOTES
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In the
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.I "POSIX"
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or
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.I "C"
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locales
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.BR strcoll ()
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is equivalent to
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.BR strcmp (3).
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.SH SEE ALSO
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.BR bcmp (3),
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.BR memcmp (3),
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.BR setlocale (3),
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.BR strcasecmp (3),
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.BR strcmp (3),
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.BR string (3),
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.BR strxfrm (3)
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