1 @c Documentation of gnulib module 'c-strcasestr'.
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12 The @code{c-strcasestr} module contains a case-insensitive string search
13 function operating on single-byte character strings, that operate as if the
14 locale encoding was ASCII.
15 (The "C" locale on many systems has the locale encoding "ASCII".)
19 extern char *c_strcasestr (const char *haystack, const char *needle);
22 For case conversion here, only ASCII characters are considered to be
23 upper case or lower case.
25 Note: The function @code{strcasestr} from @code{<string.h>} supports only
26 unibyte locales; for multibyte locales, you need the function