LSAMEN(3)                  MathKeisan LAPACK routine                 LSAMEN(3)



NAME
       LSAMEN  - if the first N letters of CA are the same as the first N let-
       ters 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.



 LAPACK auxiliary routine (versionNo3v.e1m)ber 2006                       LSAMEN(3)