VMS Help RTL Routines, STR$, STR$CASE_BLIND_COMPARE  *Conan The Librarian (sorry for the slow response - running on an old VAX)

    The Compare Strings Without Regard to Case routine compares two
    input strings of any supported class and data type without regard
    to whether the alphabetic characters are uppercase or lowercase.

    Format

      STR$CASE_BLIND_COMPARE  first-source-string

                              ,second-source-string

1 - Returns

    OpenVMS usage:longword_signed
    type:         longword (signed)
    access:       write only
    mechanism:    by value

    The values returned by STR$CASE_BLIND_COMPARE and the conditions
    to which they translate are as follows:

    Returned
    Value         Condition

                  first-source-string is less than second-source-
                  string.
    0             Both are the same (with blank fill for shorter
                  string).
    1             first-source-string is greater than second-source-
                  string.

2 - Arguments

 first-source-string

    OpenVMS usage:char_string
    type:         character string
    access:       read only
    mechanism:    by descriptor

    First string. The first-source-string argument is the address of
    a descriptor pointing to the first string.

 second-source-string

    OpenVMS usage:char_string
    type:         character string
    access:       read only
    mechanism:    by descriptor

    Second string. The second-source-string argument is the address
    of a descriptor pointing to the second string.