Posted by "Richard Lynch" on 10/10/05 23:32

On Mon, October 10, 2005 12:31 pm, zzapper wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 15:27:05 +0100, wrote:
>
>>On 10/10/05, zzapper <david@tvis.co.uk> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Image that there could be a string
>>>
>>> fred
>>> Fred
>>> FRED
>>>
>>> First of all I need to know that these are same which I can do with
>>> strtolower, but how could I tell
>>> that 'FRED' is 'most captilised?
>
> Thanx 4 various replies. In fact speed is more important 4 me than
> exactitude as it's right inside a
> critical loop.
>
> I think strcmp will do the biz even though it sees fred as being
> greater than Fred ?!?

A = 65
B = 66
C = 67
..
..
..

a = 120 (?)
b = 121 (?)
c = 122 (?)
..
..
..

f > F
a > A
fred > Fred > FRED

The "smallest" string is the "most capitalized", assuming they are the
same in lowercase.

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