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.TH CompareStringA 3w "Oct 2012" "Wine API" "Wine API"

.SH NAME
\fBCompareStringA\fR (KERNEL32.@)
.SH SYNOPSIS
INT CompareStringA
 (
  LCID   \fIlcid\fR,
  DWORD  \fIstyle\fR,
  LPCSTR \fIstr1\fR,
  INT    \fIlen1\fR,
  LPCSTR \fIstr2\fR,
  INT    \fIlen2\fR
 )

.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
Compare two locale sensitive strings. 

.SH PARAMS
\fIlcid\fR \fB[In]\fR  \fBLCID\fR for the comparison.
.PP
\fIstyle\fR \fB[In]\fR  Flags for the comparison (\fBNORM_\fR constants from \fB"winnls.h"\fR).
.PP
\fIstr1\fR \fB[In]\fR  First string to compare.
.PP
\fIlen1\fR \fB[In]\fR  Length of \fIstr1\fR, or \fB-1\fR if \fIstr1\fR is \fBNUL\fR terminated.
.PP
\fIstr2\fR \fB[In]\fR  Second string to compare.
.PP
\fIlen2\fR \fB[In]\fR  Length of \fIstr2\fR, or \fB-1\fR if \fIstr2\fR is \fBNUL\fR terminated.
.PP

.SH RETURNS
.PP
\fBSuccess:\fR \fBCSTR_LESS_THAN\fR, \fBCSTR_EQUAL\fR or \fBCSTR_GREATER_THAN\fR depending on whether \fIstr1\fR is less than, equal to or greater than \fIstr2\fR respectively. 
.PP
\fBFailure:\fR \fBFALSE\fR. Use \fBGetLastError(3w)\fR to determine the cause. 

.SH IMPLEMENTATION
.PP
Declared in \fB"winnls.h"\fR. 
.PP
Implemented in \fB"dlls/kernel32/locale.c"\fR. 
.PP
Debug channel \fB"nls"\fR.