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Binary safe case-insensitive string comparison of the first n characters

String Functions

strncasecmp

(PHP 4 >= 4.0.2, PHP 5)

strncasecmp — Binary safe case-insensitive string comparison of the first n characters

Description

int strncasecmp ( string $str1 , string $str2 , int $len )

This function is similar to strcasecmp(), with the difference that you can specify the (upper limit of the) number of characters from each string to be used in the comparison.

Parameters

str1: The first string.
str2: The second string.
len: The length of strings to be used 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

strncmp() - Binary safe 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
strcasecmp() - Binary safe case-insensitive string comparison
stristr() - Case-insensitive strstr
substr() - Return part of a string

String Functions