Php/docs/function.strncmp
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strncmp
(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)
strncmp — Binary safe string comparison of the first n characters
Description
strncmp
( string $str1
, string $str2
, int $len
) : int
This function is similar to strcmp(), with the difference that you can specify the (upper limit of the) number of characters from each string to be used in the comparison.
Note that this comparison is case sensitive.
Parameters
str1
- The first string.
str2
- The second string.
len
- Number of characters to use in the comparison.
Return Values
Returns < 0 if str1
is less than
str2
; > 0 if str1
is greater than str2
, and 0 if they are
equal.
See Also
- strncasecmp() - Binary safe case-insensitive string comparison of the first n characters
- preg_match() - Perform a regular expression match
- substr_compare() - Binary safe comparison of two strings from an offset, up to length characters
- strcmp() - Binary safe string comparison
- strstr() - Find the first occurrence of a string
- substr() - Return part of a string