Re: [boost] Re: the first version of abstract path manipulation c lass (interface)

From: Matt Austern (austern_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-01-30 12:07:28

John Maddock wrote:

>>Using locales, you can lexicographically compare strings.  However, in
>>
> this
> 
>>context, you need to compare strings while ignoring case, and I don't
>>
> recall
> 
>>that being part of the locale framework.
>>
> 
> You can do case conversion using the std::ctype facet, but there is no
> caseless string compare facility as such.

Besides, case-insensitive string comparison raises two more questions.
First, which locale do you do it in?  The program's global locale is
surely the wrong answer.  Second, std::ctype's mechanism for case
conversion isn't quite right.  It assumes you can do case conversion one
letter at a time and it assumes that the uppercase version of a string
always has the same number of characters as the lowercase version.  Both
assumptions are wrong.

                        --Matt