SLATEC Routines --- LSAME ---


    Note: this is a BLAS routine and is not in libslatec.a

*DECK LSAME
      LOGICAL FUNCTION LSAME (CA, CB)
C***BEGIN PROLOGUE  LSAME
C***SUBSIDIARY
C***PURPOSE  Test two characters to determine if they are the same
C            letter, except for case.
C***LIBRARY   SLATEC
C***CATEGORY  R, N3
C***TYPE      LOGICAL (LSAME-L)
C***KEYWORDS  CHARACTER COMPARISON, LEVEL 2 BLAS, LEVEL 3 BLAS
C***AUTHOR  Hanson, R., (SNLA)
C           Du Croz, J., (NAG)
C***DESCRIPTION
C
C  LSAME  tests if CA is the same letter as CB regardless of case.
C  CB is assumed to be an upper case letter. LSAME returns .TRUE. if
C  CA is either the same as CB or the equivalent lower case letter.
C
C  N.B. This version of the code is correct for both ASCII and EBCDIC
C       systems.  Installers must modify the routine for other
C       character-codes.
C
C       For CDC systems using 6-12 bit representations, the system-
C       specific code in comments must be activated.
C
C  Parameters
C  ==========
C
C  CA     - CHARACTER*1
C  CB     - CHARACTER*1
C           On entry, CA and CB specify characters to be compared.
C           Unchanged on exit.
C
C***REFERENCES  (NONE)
C***ROUTINES CALLED  (NONE)
C***REVISION HISTORY  (YYMMDD)
C   860720  DATE WRITTEN
C   910606  Modified to meet SLATEC prologue standards.  Only comment
C           lines were modified.  (BKS)
C   910607  Modified to handle ASCII and EBCDIC codes.  (WRB)
C   930201  Tests for equality and equivalence combined.  (RWC and WRB)
C***END PROLOGUE  LSAME