Case Insensitive String comp in C

Question

I have two postcodes char* that I want to compare, ignoring case. Is there a function to do this?

Or do I have to loop through each use the tolower func

Answer 1

int strcmpInsensitive(char* a, char* b)
{
    return strcmp(lowerCaseWord(a), lowerCaseWord(b));
}

char* lowerCaseWord(char* a)
{
    char *b=new char[strlen(a)];
    for (int i = 0; i < strlen(a); i++)
    {
        b[i] = tolower(a[i]);   
    }
    return b;
}

good luck

Edit-lowerCaseWord function get a char* variable with, and return the lower case value of this char*. For example "AbCdE" for value of char*, will return "abcde".

Basically what it does is to take the two char* variables, after being transferred to lower case, and make use the strcmp function on them.

For example- if we call the strcmpInsensitive function for values of "AbCdE", and "ABCDE", it will first return both values in lower case ("abcde"), and then do strcmp function on them.