strcmp
(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)
strcmp — Binary safe string comparison
Description
$string1
, string $string2
): intNote that this comparison is case sensitive.
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 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() - Binary safe case-insensitive string comparison
- preg_match() - Perform a regular expression match
- substr_compare() - Binary safe comparison of two strings from an offset, up to length characters
- strncmp() - Binary safe string comparison of the first n characters
- strstr() - Find the first occurrence of a string
- substr() - Return part of a string