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
- preg_match() - Perform a regular expression match
- strcmp() - Binary safe string comparison
- strcasecmp() - Binary safe case-insensitive string comparison
- substr() - Return part of a string
- stristr() - Case-insensitive strstr
- strstr() - Find first occurrence of a string