lsamen(3F)

NAME
     LSAMEN - 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.