strcmp
Binary safe string comparison
Description
int strcmp(string $string1, string $string2)
Note that this comparison is case sensitive.
Parameters
-
string1
-
The first string.
-
string2
-
The second string.
Return Values
Returns -1 if string1 is less than
string2; 1 if string1
is greater than string2, 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