/* -*- mode: c; c-file-style: "k&r" -*- strnatcmp.c -- Perform 'natural order' comparisons of strings in C. Copyright (C) 2000, 2004 by Martin Pool This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages arising from the use of this software. Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose, including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it freely, subject to the following restrictions: 1. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must not claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this software in a product, an acknowledgment in the product documentation would be appreciated but is not required. 2. Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be misrepresented as being the original software. 3. This notice may not be removed or altered from any source distribution. */ /* partial change history: * * 2004-10-10 mbp: Lift out character type dependencies into macros. * * Eric Sosman pointed out that ctype functions take a parameter whose * value must be that of an unsigned int, even on platforms that have * negative chars in their default char type. * * 2021-10-13 jcs: Modified to compile in THINK C 5 */ #include /* size_t */ #include #include "strnatcmp.h" int compare_right(char const *a, char const *b); int compare_right(char const *a, char const *b) { int bias = 0; /* The longest run of digits wins. That aside, the greatest value wins, but we can't know that it will until we've scanned both numbers to know that they have the same magnitude, so we remember it in BIAS. */ for (;; a++, b++) { if (!isdigit((unsigned char)*a) && !isdigit((unsigned char)*b)) return bias; if (!isdigit((unsigned char)*a)) return -1; if (!isdigit((unsigned char)*b)) return +1; if (*a < *b) { if (!bias) bias = -1; } else if (*a > *b) { if (!bias) bias = +1; } else if (!*a && !*b) return bias; } return 0; } static int compare_left(char const *a, char const *b) { /* Compare two left-aligned numbers: the first to have a different value wins. */ for (;; a++, b++) { if (!isdigit((unsigned char)*a) && !isdigit((unsigned char)*b)) return 0; if (!isdigit((unsigned char)*a)) return -1; if (!isdigit((unsigned char)*b)) return +1; if (*a < *b) return -1; if (*a > *b) return +1; } return 0; } static int strnatcmp0(char const *a, char const *b, int fold_case) { int ai, bi; char ca, cb; int fractional, result; ai = bi = 0; while (1) { ca = a[ai]; cb = b[bi]; /* skip over leading spaces or zeros */ while (isspace((unsigned char)ca)) ca = a[++ai]; while (isspace((unsigned char)cb)) cb = b[++bi]; /* process run of digits */ if (isdigit((unsigned char)ca) && isdigit((unsigned char)cb)) { fractional = (ca == '0' || cb == '0'); if (fractional) { if ((result = compare_left(a+ai, b+bi)) != 0) return result; } else { if ((result = compare_right(a+ai, b+bi)) != 0) return result; } } if (!ca && !cb) { /* The strings compare the same. Perhaps the caller will want to call strcmp to break the tie. */ return 0; } if (fold_case) { ca = toupper((unsigned char)ca); cb = toupper((unsigned char)cb); } if (ca < cb) return -1; if (ca > cb) return +1; ++ai; ++bi; } } int strnatcmp(char const *a, char const *b) { return strnatcmp0(a, b, 0); } /* Compare, recognizing numeric string and ignoring case. */ int strnatcasecmp(char const *a, char const *b) { return strnatcmp0(a, b, 1); }