02-04-2008
Development to my previous post !!
What i did find out was that the error mesg - 'too many arguments' was due to having numbers in the file as well, instead of just characters !
the code does not work with numbers in the file. It only works for files with characters only. Sorry should have mentioned earlier, got numbers in some of my files too !!!
Can you help me out here. I am trying as well.
Thanks
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fwcscmp
fwcscmp(3) Library Functions Manual fwcscmp(3)
NAME
fwcscmp - fuzzy comparison of two wide-character strings
SYNOPSIS
#include <fstrcmp.h>
#define FSTRCMP_IDENTICAL
#define FSTRCMP_THRESHOLD
#define FSTRCMP_ERROR
double fwcscmp(const wchar_t *string1, const wchar_t *string2);
DESCRIPTION
The fwcscmp() function compares the two wide-character strings, string1 and string2.
RETURN VALUE
The fwcscmp function returns a floating point value between 0.0 and FSTRCMP_IDENTICAL. A value of 0.0 means the two wide-character strings
are utterly un-alike. A value of FSTRCMP_IDENTICAL means the two wide-character strings are identical. A value of more than FSTR-
CMP_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
fstrcmp(3)
fuzzy comparison of two strings
fwcscmpi(3)
fuzzy comparison of two wide-character strings
wcscmp(3)
compare two wide-character strings
COPYRIGHT
fstrcmp version 0.4
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
fwcscmp(3)