strcasecmp

(PHP 3 >= 3.0.2, PHP 4, PHP 5)

strcasecmp -- Binary safe case-insensitive string comparison

Description

int strcasecmp ( string str1, string str2 )

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

preg_match()
strcmp()
substr()
stristr()
strncasecmp()
strstr()