redhat man page for lsamen

LSAMEN(l)								 )								 LSAMEN(l)

NAME
       LSAMEN - test if the first N letters of CA are the same as the first N letters of CB, regardless of case

SYNOPSIS
       LOGICAL FUNCTION LSAMEN( N, CA, CB )

	   CHARACTER*(	* ) CA, CB

	   INTEGER	N

PURPOSE
       LSAMEN tests if the first N letters of CA are the same as the first N letters of CB, regardless of case. LSAMEN returns .TRUE. if CA and CB
       are equivalent except for case and .FALSE. otherwise.  LSAMEN also returns .FALSE. if LEN( CA ) or LEN( CB ) is less than N.

ARGUMENTS
       N       (input) INTEGER
	       The number of characters in CA and CB to be compared.

       CA      (input) CHARACTER*(*)
	       CB      (input) CHARACTER*(*) CA and CB specify two character strings of length at least N.  Only the first N  characters  of  each
	       string will be accessed.

LAPACK version 3.0						   15 June 2000 							 LSAMEN(l)