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Re: Change Setup's package search field to case-insensitive

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jun 26 16:26, Dave Korn wrote:
>> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> On Jun 26 10:48, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 02:45:48PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>>>>> Andrew Schulman wrote:
>>>>>>> So, if there's no compelling reason to keep the search case-sensitive, I
>>>>>>> will change it to case-insensitive.
>>>>>> Yes, please.
>>>>>  Seconded.  Entirely sensible.
>>>> Ditto.
>>>>
>>>> To address the issue of StrStri, I am surprised that msvcrt doesn't have
>>>> something like this but, since it doesn't, I agree that it makes sense
>>>> to use whatever the OS provides.
>>> msvcrt only supports strstr, not strcasestr, unfortunately.
>>   You're looking for "stricmp", the non-posix name MS uses for the equivalent
>> functionality.
> 
> stricmp == strcasecmp
> stricmp != strcasestr
> 

  Duh me!

    cheers,
      DaveK
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