fwcscmp(3)

💖 fwcscmp(3) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the fwcscmp(3) page from the Library Functions Manual ✨ we're about to get into fuzzy wide-character string comparison and it's giving main character energy, no cap. let's go 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

fwcscmp — fuzzy comparison of two wide-character strings 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <fstrcmp.h>
#define FSTRCMP_IDENTICAL
#define FSTRCMP_THRESHOLD
#define FSTRCMP_ERROR
double fwcscmp(const wchar_t *string1, const wchar_t *string2);

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so like, fwcscmp() compares the two wide-character strings, string1 and string2. that's the whole vibe. it's a fuzzy comparison, not a strict equality thing, so it's lowkey obsessed with how similar they are rather than just "same or not same" 💖

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⭐ RETURN VALUE ⭐

the fwcscmp function returns a floating point value between 0.0 and FSTRCMP_IDENTICAL. here's the tea:

• a value of 0.0 means the two wide-character strings are utterly un-alike 💀
• a value of FSTRCMP_IDENTICAL means the two wide-character strings are identical 👑
• a value of more than FSTRCMP_THRESHOLD (and just so you know, FSTRCMP_THRESHOLD lies between 0.0 and FSTRCMP_IDENTICAL) would be considered "similar" by most people 🫶

and if you get a value of FSTRCMP_ERROR (which is always negative), that indicates a malloc(3) failure 😭

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• fstrcmp(3) — fuzzy comparison of two strings
• fwcscmpi(3) — fuzzy comparison of two wide-character strings
• wcscmp(3) — compare two wide-character strings

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💜 COPYRIGHT 💜

fstrcmp version 0.7

Copyright (C) 2009 Peter Miller

Peter Miller <pmiller@opensource.org.au>

the comparison code is derived from the fuzzy comparison functions in GNU Gettext 0.17. the GNU Gettext comparison functions were, in turn, derived from GNU Diff 2.7.

Copyright (C) 1988-2009 Free Software Foundation

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and that's a wrap on fwcscmp(3) 💖 this was the Library Functions Manual page for fwcscmp(3), fstrcmp version 0.7, copyright 2009 Peter Miller — periodt. slay ✨💅