.\" Copyright (c) 1990 The Regents of the University of California.
.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by
.\" %sccs.include.redist.man%
.\" @(#)strncmp.3 5.1 (Berkeley) %G%
strncmp \- compare strings of limited length
strcmp(const char *s1, const char *s2, size_t len);
characters in the null-terminated strings
and returns an integer greater than, equal to, or less than 0,
is lexicographically greater than, equal to, or less than
The comparison is done using unsigned characters, so that '\e200'
bcmp(3), memcmp(3), strcasecmp(3), strcmp(3), strcoll(3), strncasecmp(3),
conforms to ANSI X3.159-1989 (``ANSI C'').