strcmp

Binary safe string comparison

Description

int strcmp ( string $str1 , string $str2 )

Note that this comparison is case sensitive.

Parameters

str1

The first string.

str2

The second string.

Return Values

Returns < 0 if str1 is less than str2; > 0 if str1 is greater than str2, and 0 if they are equal.

Examples

Example #1 strcmp example

<?php
$var1 
"Hello";
$var2 "hello";
if (
strcmp($var1$var2) !== 0) {
    echo 
'$var1 is not equal to $var2 in a case sensitive string comparison';
}
?>

See Also

  • strcasecmp
  • preg_match
  • substr_compare
  • strncmp
  • strstr
  • substr