fstrcmp - fuzzy comparison of two strings
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Copyright
fstrcmp version 0.7
Copyright (C) 2009 Peter Miller
Peter Miller <pmiller@opensource.org.au>
The comparison code is derived from the fuzzy comparison functions in GNU Gettext 0.17. The GNU Gettext
comparison functions were, in turn, derived from GNU Diff 2.7.
Copyright (C) 1988-2009 Free Software Foundation
fstrcmp(3)
Description
The fstrcmp() function compares the two strings, string1 and string2.
Name
fstrcmp - fuzzy comparison of two strings
Return Value
The fstrcmp function returns a floating point value between 0.0 and FSTRCMP_IDENTICAL. A value of 0.0
means the strings are utterly un-alike. A value of FSTRCMP_IDENTICAL means the strings are identical. A
value of more than FSTRCMP_THRESHOLD (it lies between 0.0 and FSTRCMP_IDENTICAL) would be considered
"similar" by most people.
A value of FSTRCMP_ERROR (always negative) indicates a malloc(3) failure.
See Also
fmemcmp(3) fuzzy comparison of two memory areas fstrcasecmp(3) fuzzy comparison of two strings ignoring case fstrcmpi(3) fuzzy comparison of two strings strcmp(3) compare two strings
Synopsis
#include <fstrcmp.h>
#define FSTRCMP_IDENTICAL
#define FSTRCMP_THRESHOLD
#define FSTRCMP_ERROR
double fstrcmp(const char *string1, const char *string2);
