STL Algorithm

std::lexicographical_compare is an algorithm which can be used to compare string lexicographically.
We can give our comparing function to make it work without pay attention to capital and small letter.
C++
template< class InputIt1, class InputIt2, class Compare >
constexpr bool lexicographical_compare( InputIt1 first1, InputIt1 last1,
                                        InputIt2 first2, InputIt2 last2,
                                        Compare comp );
Example:
C++
#include 
#include 
#include 
#include 

using namespace std;

int main()
{
    string s1 = "Abcf";
    string s2 = "AbCf";

    // return true if the first range is lexicographically less than the second.
    cout << "lexicographical_compare: " << lexicographical_compare( s1.begin(), s1.end(),
                                                                    s2.begin(), s2.end() )
         << endl;
    
    // ignore difference about capital and small letter, check whether they are same characters.
    cout << "second result: " << lexicographical_compare( s1.begin(), s1.end(),
                                                          s2.begin(), s2.end(),
                                                          [](const char c1, const char c2){ return tolower(c1) == tolower(c2); } )
    << endl;
    return 0;
}
Output:
Bash
lexicographical_compare: 0
second result: 1

Standard C Library

There is a similar function in the standard C library:int strcasecmp(const char *s1, const char *s2); It compares strings ignoring case.
Example:
C++
#include 
using namespace std;

int main()
{
    string s1 = "Abcf";
    string s2 = "ABCf";

    // return 0 if both charater is equal (ignore case)
    cout << strcasecmp( s1.c_str(), s2.c_str() ) << endl;
    return 0;
}

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