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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting string comparison Post 302164357 by Jatsui on Monday 4th of February 2008 03:28:33 PM
Old 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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fstrcolli(3)						     Library Functions Manual						      fstrcolli(3)

NAME
fstrcolli - fuzzy comparison of two strings using the current locale SYNOPSIS
#include <fstrcmp.h> #define FSTRCMP_IDENTICAL #define FSTRCMP_THRESHOLD #define FSTRCMP_ERROR int fstrcolli(const char *string1, const char *string2); DESCRIPTION
The strcolli() function compares the two strings sting1 and string2. The comparison is based on strings interpreted as appropriate for the program's current locale for category LC_CTYPE. RETURN VALUE
The fstrcolli function returns an int value between 0 and FSTRCMPI_IDENTICAL. A value of 0 means the strings are utterly un-alike. A value of FSTRCMPI_IDENTICAL means the strings are identical. A value of more than FSTRCMPI_THRESHOLD (it lies between 0 and FSTRCMPI_IDEN- TICAL) would be considered "similar" by most people. A value of FSTRCMPI_ERROR (always negative) indicates a malloc(3) or mbstowcs(3) failure. SEE ALSO
fstrcmpi(3) fuzzy comparison of two strings fstrcoll(3) fuzzy comparison of two strings using the current locale strcoll(3) compare two strings using the current locale mbstowcs(3) convert a multibyte string to a wide-character string 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 fstrcolli(3)
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