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+//  (C) Copyright Gennadiy Rozental 2004-2008.
+//  Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.
+//  (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at 
+//  http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)
+
+//  See http://www.boost.org/libs/test for the library home page.
+//
+//  File        : $RCSfile$
+//
+//  Version     : $Revision: 49312 $
+//
+//  Description : class basic_cstring comparisons implementation
+// ***************************************************************************
+
+#ifndef  BOOST_TEST_BASIC_CSTRING_COMPARE_HPP_071894GER
+#define  BOOST_TEST_BASIC_CSTRING_COMPARE_HPP_071894GER
+
+// Boost.Test
+#include <ndnboost/test/utils/basic_cstring/basic_cstring.hpp>
+
+// STL
+#include <functional>
+#include <cctype>
+
+#include <ndnboost/test/detail/suppress_warnings.hpp>
+
+//____________________________________________________________________________//
+
+# if defined(BOOST_NO_STDC_NAMESPACE) && !BOOST_WORKAROUND(__BORLANDC__, <= 0x570)
+namespace std { using ::toupper; }
+# endif
+
+namespace ndnboost {
+
+namespace unit_test {
+
+// ************************************************************************** //
+// **************                case_ins_compare              ************** //
+// ************************************************************************** //
+
+namespace ut_detail {
+
+template<class CharT>
+struct case_ins
+{
+    static bool         eq( CharT c1, CharT c2 ) { return (std::toupper)( c1 ) == (std::toupper)( c2 ); }
+    static bool         lt( CharT c1, CharT c2 ) { return (std::toupper)( c1 ) <  (std::toupper)( c2 ); }
+
+    static int          compare( CharT const* s1, CharT const* s2, std::size_t n )
+    {
+        for( std::size_t i = 0; i < n; ++i ) {
+            if( !eq( s1[i], s2[i] ) )
+                return lt( s1[i], s2[i] ) ? -1 : 1;
+        }
+        return 0;
+    }
+};
+
+} // namespace ut_detail
+
+// ************************************************************************** //
+// **************                  case_ins_eq                 ************** //
+// ************************************************************************** //
+
+template<class CharT>
+inline bool
+case_ins_eq( basic_cstring<CharT> x, basic_cstring<CharT> y )
+{
+    return x.size() == y.size() && ut_detail::case_ins<CharT>::compare( x.begin(), y.begin(), x.size() ) == 0;
+}
+
+//____________________________________________________________________________//
+
+// ************************************************************************** //
+// **************                 case_ins_less                ************** //
+// ************************************************************************** //
+
+template<class CharT>
+class case_ins_less : public std::binary_function<basic_cstring<CharT>,basic_cstring<CharT>,bool>
+{
+public:
+    bool operator()( basic_cstring<CharT> x, basic_cstring<CharT> y ) const
+    {
+        return x.size() != y.size() 
+                ? x.size() < y.size() 
+                : ut_detail::case_ins<CharT>::compare( x.begin(), y.begin(), x.size() ) < 0;
+    }
+};
+
+//____________________________________________________________________________//
+
+// ************************************************************************** //
+// **************                  operator <                  ************** //
+// ************************************************************************** //
+
+template<class CharT>
+inline bool
+operator <( ndnboost::unit_test::basic_cstring<CharT> const& x,
+            ndnboost::unit_test::basic_cstring<CharT> const& y )
+{
+    typedef typename ndnboost::unit_test::basic_cstring<CharT>::traits_type traits_type;
+    return x.size() != y.size() 
+            ? x.size() < y.size() 
+            : traits_type::compare( x.begin(), y.begin(), x.size() ) < 0;
+}
+
+} // namespace unit_test
+
+} // namespace ndnboost
+
+//____________________________________________________________________________//
+
+#include <ndnboost/test/detail/enable_warnings.hpp>
+
+#endif // BOOST_TEST_BASIC_CSTRING_COMPARE_HPP_071894GER