strcmp()

strcmp - Binary safe string comparison

Syntax

int strcmp (string $str1, string $str2)

Arguments

• str1 - The first string.
• str2 - The second string.

Description

Note that this comparison is case sensitive.

Version

PHP 4, 5

Return value

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