Re: sorting std::vector<string> ignoring case

On Fri, 11 May 2007 22:03:40 -0600, Jerry Coffin <jcoffin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <e7kCsV#kHHA.4876@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
chololennon@xxxxxxxxxxx says...
Ok, I understand your "P.S." point. You're right. Only one thing: I didn't
say that _stricmp is ANSI compatible (I'm sorry again if I wasn't very clear
or very specfic). I suggested the use of _stricmp because (like you said) its
name it's conformant with standard (because it's declared inside string.h).

The name stricmp conformed just as well (all names starting with 'str'
are reserved, per section 7.26.11 of the C99 standard, or 7.13.8 of the
original C89/90 standard).

Which was my "P.S." point. :)

Adding the leading underscore accomplished
nothing in this case.

Well, it did achieve consistency for the non-standard functions MS provides
as part of the CRT, but that's about it. If stricmp were ever to be
standardized, there would be a lot of pressure to be compatible with
existing practice, so I don't think leaving it alone would have hurt
anything.

--
Doug Harrison
Visual C++ MVP
.

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