Questions tagged [strcmp]

strcmp is a string compare function that is available in languages such as C, C++, PHP, Python and MATLAB.

Structure

int strcmp ( string $str1 , string $str2 )

int strcmp( const char *lhs, const char *rhs );

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

Examples

echo strcmp("a","z"); // returns a negative number
echo strcmp("a","a"); // returns 0
echo strcmp("z","a"); // returns a positive number

int res = strcmp("a", "z"); // result is a negative number
int res = strcmp("a", "a"); // result is 0
int res = strcmp("z", "a"); // result is a positive number

References

• PHP.net on strcmp
• https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/string/byte/strcmp

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/string/byte/strcmp