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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>1997-10-27 04:59:25 +0000
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>1997-10-27 04:59:25 +0000
commit3426a19c60e7029e7ac18350dbd737d637266986 (patch)
treed074e81bd2cf0c080cb50063b0b7deb6e5e54a77 /lib
parentf831d9c32db624ad646087e079afbd6c7783c632 (diff)
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-rw-r--r--lib/memcasecmp.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/memcasecmp.c b/lib/memcasecmp.c
index 2a255f19d..a2e42e8ec 100644
--- a/lib/memcasecmp.c
+++ b/lib/memcasecmp.c
@@ -39,7 +39,9 @@
#include "memcasecmp.h"
-/* Like memcmp, but ignore differences in case. */
+/* Like memcmp, but ignore differences in case.
+ Convert to upper case (not lower) before comparing so that
+ join -i works with sort -f. */
int
memcasecmp (vs1, vs2, n)