strcasestr()

The strcasestr() function is defined in libc on '2.6.24-16-generic #1 SMP Thu Apr 10 13:23:42 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux' machine is defined as:

$nm -AC /usr/lib/libc.*|grep strcasestr
/usr/lib/libc.a:strcasestr.o:00000000 W strcasestr

flag 'W' means weakly defined. If it is linked with normal code without defining the function(), compiler error is observed saying 'strcasestr() undefined'. The function's declaration could be found in . To avoid compilation error, I have written my own strcasestr() function, but altered the expected functionality of the function to suit my requirement.

I need to compare whether a given string is a sub-string(case-insensitive) of the given string. But the string could be found only at the word begining. The code fragment for the strcasestr() is pasted below.

static gchar* my_strcasestr(gchar *source, gchar *target) {
gushort i = 0, len = 0; /* assuming search string length won't be greater than sizeof(gushort) */
guchar after_space = 1;

len = strlen(target);
for (; source[i] != '\0'; i++) {

if(!after_space && source[i] != ' ')
continue;
if(source[i] == ' ') {
after_space = 1;
continue;
}
after_space = 0;
if(!strncasecmp((source+i), target, len))
return (source+i);
}
return NULL;
}

If there is any better way of doing this, pls let me know.