Exercise 5.15 - fold upper and lower case together

Question

Add the option -f to fold upper and lower case together, so that case distinctions are not made during sorting; for example, a and A compare equal.

/* Add the option -f to fold upper and lower cases together, so that case
 * distinctions are not made clearly during sorting;For eg:a and A compare equal
 * */

#include<stdio.h>
#include<string.h>
#include<ctype.h>
#include<stdlib.h>

#define NUMERIC 1    /* numeric sort */
#define DECR    2    /* sort in decreasing order */
#define FOLD    4    /* fold upper and lower cases */
#define LINES    100    /* maximum numnber of lines to be sorted */


int charcmp(char *, char *);

int numcmp(char *, char *);

int readlines(char *lineptr[], int maxlines);

void myqsort(char *v[], int left, int right, int (*comp)(void *, void *));

void writelines(char *lineptr[], int nlines, int order);

static char option = 0;

/* sort input lines */

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
    char *lineptr[LINES];    /* pointers to text lines */
    int nlines;        /* number of input lines read */
    int c, rc = 0;

    while (--argc > 0 && (*++argv)[0] == '-') {
        while (c = *++argv[0])
            switch (c) {
                case 'f':
                    option |= FOLD;
                    break;
                case 'n':
                    option |= NUMERIC;
                    break;
                case 'r':
                    option |= DECR;
                    break;
                default:
                    printf("sort: illegal option %c\n", c);
                    argc = 1;
                    rc = -1;
                    break;
            }
    }
    if (argc)
        printf("Usage: sort -fnr \n");
    else {
        if ((nlines = readlines(lineptr, LINES)) > 0) {
            if (option & NUMERIC)
                myqsort((char **) lineptr, 0, nlines - 1, (int (*)(void *, void *)) numcmp);
            else if (option & FOLD)
                myqsort((char **) lineptr, 0, nlines - 1, (int (*)(void *, void *)) charcmp);
            else
                myqsort((char **) lineptr, 0, nlines - 1, (int (*)(void *, void *)) strcmp);

            writelines(lineptr, nlines, option & DECR);
        } else {
            printf("input too big to sort \n");
            rc = -1;
        }

        return rc;

    }
}

/* charcmp: return < 0 if s <t, =0 if s =t,> 0 if s > t */
int charcmp(char *s, char *t) {
    for (; tolower(*s) == tolower(*t); s++, t++)
        if (*s == '\0')
            return 0;
    return tolower(*s) - tolower(*t);
}

/* numcmp: compare s1 and s2 numerically */
int numcmp(char *s1, char *s2) {
    double v1, v2;
    v1 = atof(s1);
    v2 = atof(s2);

    if (v1 < v2)
        return -1;
    else if (v1 > v2)
        return 1;
    else
        return 0;
}

#define MAXLEN    1000        /* max length of any input line */

int mgetline(char *, int);

char *alloc(int);

/* readlines: read input lines */

int readlines(char *lineptr[], int maxlines) {
    int len, nlines;
    char *p, line[MAXLEN];

    nlines = 0;
    while ((len = mgetline(line, MAXLEN)) > 0)
        if (nlines >= maxlines || (p = alloc(len)) == NULL)
            return -1;
        else {
            line[len - 1] = '\0';    /* delete newline */
            strcpy(p, line);
            lineptr[nlines++] = p;
        }
    return nlines;
}

/* myqsort: sort v[left] ... v[right] into increasing order */

void myqsort(char *v[], int left, int right, int (*comp)(void *, void *)) {
    int i, last;
    void swap(char *v[], int i, int j);

    if (left >= right)    /* do nothing if array contains */
        return;    /*fewer that two elements */

    swap(v, left, (left + right) / 2);

    last = left;

    for (i = left + 1; i <= right; i++)
        if ((*comp)(v[i], v[left]) < 0)
            swap(v, ++last, i);
    swap(v, left, last);
    myqsort(v, left, last - 1, comp);
    myqsort(v, last + 1, right, comp);
}

/* swap: interchange v[i] and v[j] */

void swap(char *v[], int i, int j) {
    char *temp;
    temp = v[i];
    v[i] = v[j];
    v[j] = temp;
}


/* writelines: write output line */

void writelines(char *lineptr[], int nlines, int decr) {
    int i;
    for (i = 0; i < nlines; i++)
        printf("%s\n", lineptr[i]);
}

#define ALLOCSIZE 1000    /* size of available space */
static char allocbuf[ALLOCSIZE];    /* storage for alloc */
static char *allocp = allocbuf;        /* next free position */

char *alloc(int n)    /* return pointer to n characters */
{
    if (allocbuf + ALLOCSIZE - allocp >= n) {
        allocp += n;
        return allocp - n;
    } else
        return 0;
}

void afree(char *p)        /* free storage pointed to by */
{
    if (p >= allocbuf && p < allocbuf + ALLOCSIZE)
        allocp = p;
}

/* mgetline: read a line into s, return length */

int mgetline(char s[], int lim) {
    int c, i;
    for (i = 0; i < lim - 1 && (c = getchar()) != EOF && c != '\n'; ++i)
        s[i] = c;
    if (c == '\n') {
        s[i] = c;
        ++i;
    }
    s[i] = '\0';
    return i;

}

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