lsamen(3)

NAME

LSAMEN - test if the first N letters of CA are the same as

the first N letters of CB, regardless of case

SYNOPSIS

LOGICAL FUNCTION LSAMEN( N, CA, CB )
    CHARACTER*(  * ) CA, CB
    INTEGER      N

PURPOSE

LSAMEN tests if the first N letters of CA are the same as

the first N letters of CB, regardless of case. LSAMEN returns

.TRUE. if CA and CB are equivalent except for case and .FALSE.

otherwise. LSAMEN also returns .FALSE. if LEN( CA ) or LEN( CB )

is less than N.

ARGUMENTS

N (input) INTEGER

The number of characters in CA and CB to be com

pared.

CA (input) CHARACTER*(*)

CB (input) CHARACTER*(*) CA and CB specify

two character strings of length at least N. Only the first N

characters of each string will be accessed.

LAPACK version 3.0 15 June 2000

LSAMEN(3)