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utf8strncmp()

Compare part of a UTF-8 character string

Synopsis:

#include <utf8.h>

int utf8strncmp( char const *str1, 
                 char const *str2, 
                 int len );

Arguments:

str1, str2

The UTF-8 strings to compare.

len

The number of UTF-8 characters to compare in the strings.

Library:

ph

Description:

Compare len UTF-8 characters from str1 with str2.

The char_width parameter must be set to the maximum number of bytes used to represent a single character.

Returns:

An integer less than, equal to, or greater than zero, indicating that str1 is less than, equal to, or greater than str2.

Classification:

Photon

See also:

Unicode Multilingual Support in the Photon Programmer's Guide