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+## Copyright (C) 2000  Bill Lash
+##
+## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+## it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+## the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+## (at your option) any later version.
+##
+## This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+## but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+## GNU General Public License for more details.
+##
+## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+## along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+## Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
+
+## usage: strcmpi (s1, s2)
+##
+## Compare two strings, ignoring case, returning 1 if
+## they are the same, and 0 otherwise.
+##
+## Note: For compatibility with Matlab, Octave's strcmpi function
+## returns 1 if the strings are equal, and 0 otherwise.  This is
+## just the opposite of the corresponding C library function.
+
+## Author: Bill Lash <lash@tellabs.com>
+
+function status = strcmpi(s1, s2)
+
+  if (nargin != 2)
+    usage ("strcmpi (s, t)");
+  endif
+
+  status = 0;		# Assume strings are different
+  if (isstr (s1) && isstr(s2))
+    status = strcmp(upper(s1),upper(s2));
+  endif
+
+endfunction
+