2 strnatcmp.c -- Perform 'natural order' comparisons of strings in C.
3 Copyright (C) 2000, 2004 by Martin Pool <mbp sourcefrog net>
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23 /* partial change history:
25 * 2004-10-10 mbp: Lift out character type dependencies into macros.
27 * Eric Sosman pointed out that ctype functions take a parameter whose
28 * value must be that of an unsigned int, even on platforms that have
29 * negative chars in their default char type.
32 * This version is changed to ignore leading zeros, it does not equal to the
40 #include "strnatcmp.h"
42 #define assert(x) /* nothing */
44 /* Convert char to int regardless of whether char is signed or not */
48 return (int) ((unsigned char) c
);
51 /* These are defined as macros to make it easier to adapt this code to
52 * different characters types or comparison functions. */
63 return a
== '0' || isspace(a
);
76 compare_right(char const *a
, char const *b
)
81 /* The longest run of digits wins. That aside, the greatest
82 value wins, but we can't know that it will until we've scanned
83 both numbers to know that they have the same magnitude, so we
84 remember it in BIAS. */
88 if (!nat_isdigit(ca
) && !nat_isdigit(cb
))
90 else if (!nat_isdigit(ca
))
92 else if (!nat_isdigit(cb
))
100 } else if (!ca
&& !cb
)
107 static int strnatcmp0(char const *a
, char const *b
, int fold_case
)
119 /* skip over leading spaces or zeros */
120 while (nat_isspace(ca
))
121 ca
= to_int(a
[++ai
]);
123 while (nat_isspace(cb
))
124 cb
= to_int(b
[++bi
]);
126 /* process run of digits */
127 if (nat_isdigit(ca
) && nat_isdigit(cb
)) {
128 if ((result
= compare_right(a
+ai
, b
+bi
)) != 0)
133 /* The strings compare the same. Perhaps the caller
134 will want to call strcmp to break the tie. */
139 ca
= nat_toupper(ca
);
140 cb
= nat_toupper(cb
);
154 int strnatcmp(const char *a
, const char *b
) {
155 return strnatcmp0(a
, b
, 0);
159 /* Compare, recognizing numeric string and ignoring case. */
160 int strnatcasecmp(const char *a
, const char *b
) {
161 return strnatcmp0(a
, b
, 1);