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5.24 strcoll—locale-specific character string compare

Synopsis

#include <string.h>
int strcoll(const char *stra, const char * strb);

Description
strcoll compares the string pointed to by stra to the string pointed to by strb, using an interpretation appropriate to the current LC_COLLATE state.

(NOT Cygwin:) The current implementation of strcoll simply uses strcmp and does not support any language-specific sorting.


Returns
If the first string is greater than the second string, strcoll returns a number greater than zero. If the two strings are equivalent, strcoll returns zero. If the first string is less than the second string, strcoll returns a number less than zero.


Portability
strcoll is ANSI C.

strcoll requires no supporting OS subroutines.