strcasecmp
(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)
strcasecmp — Binary safe case-insensitive string comparison
Description
strcasecmp ( string $str1 , string $str2 ) : int
Binary safe case-insensitive string comparison.
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 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
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