strncmp

strncmp

(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)

strncmpBinary safe string comparison of the first n characters

Description

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

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

Note that this comparison is case sensitive.