LSAMEN (3lapack)

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 compared.

  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.