Binary safe string comparison

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# strcmp

(PHP 4, PHP 5)

strcmp — Binary safe string comparison

### Description

int strcmp ( string `$str1` , string `$str2` )

Note that this comparison is case sensitive.

### 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.

### See Also

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

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