strbuf: add a case insensitive starts_with()

Check in a case insensitive manner if one string is a prefix of another string. This function is used in a subsequent commit. Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Lars Schneider committed Mar 9, 2018 at 18:35 UTC 66b8af3e124a0c9dbad05f40c2f6d27614f34349
2 files changed +10
git-compat-util.h
+1
@@ -455,6 +455,7 @@ extern void (*get_warn_routine(void))(const char *warn, va_list params);
455 extern void set_die_is_recursing_routine(int (*routine)(void));
456
457 extern int starts_with(const char *str, const char *prefix);
458 +extern int istarts_with(const char *str, const char *prefix);
459
460 /*
461 * If the string "str" begins with the string found in "prefix", return 1.
strbuf.c
+9
@@ -11,6 +11,15 @@ int starts_with(const char *str, const char *prefix)
11 return 0;
12 }
13
14 +int istarts_with(const char *str, const char *prefix)
15 +{
16 + for (; ; str++, prefix++)
17 + if (!*prefix)
18 + return 1;
19 + else if (tolower(*str) != tolower(*prefix))
20 + return 0;
21 +}
22 +
23 int skip_to_optional_arg_default(const char *str, const char *prefix,
24 const char **arg, const char *def)
25 {