strcasecmp
(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)
strcasecmp — Binary safe case-insensitive string comparison
Description
$string1
, string $string2
): intBinary safe case-insensitive string comparison. The comparison is not locale aware; only ASCII letters are compared in a case-insensitive way.
Parameters
-
string1
-
The first string
-
string2
-
The second string
Return Values
Returns < 0 if string1
is less than
string2
; > 0 if string1
is greater than string2
, and 0 if they are
equal.
Examples
Example #1 strcasecmp() example
<?php
$var1 = "Hello";
$var2 = "hello";
if (strcasecmp($var1, $var2) == 0) {
echo '$var1 is equal to $var2 in a case-insensitive string comparison';
}
?>
See Also
- strcmp() - Binary safe string comparison
- preg_match() - Perform a regular expression match
- substr_compare() - Binary safe comparison of two strings from an offset, up to length characters
- strncasecmp() - Binary safe case-insensitive string comparison of the first n characters
- stristr() - Case-insensitive strstr
- substr() - Return part of a string