PHP: strnatcasecmp - Manual
(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)
strnatcasecmp — Case insensitive string comparisons using a "natural order" algorithm
Parameters
string1-
The first string.
string2-
The second string.
Return Values
Returns a value less than 0 if string1
is less than string2; a value greater
than 0 if string1 is greater than
string2, and 0 if they
are equal.
No particular meaning can be reliably inferred from the value aside
from its sign.
Changelog
| Version | Description |
|---|---|
| 8.2.0 |
This function is no longer guaranteed to return
strlen($string1) - strlen($string2) when string lengths
are not equal, but may now return -1 or
1 instead.
|
Examples
Example #1 strnatcasecmp() example
<?php
var_dump(strnatcasecmp('Apple', 'Banana'));
var_dump(strnatcasecmp('Banana', 'Apple'));
var_dump(strnatcasecmp('apple', 'Apple'));
?>The above example will output:
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
- strncasecmp() - Binary safe case-insensitive string comparison of the first n characters
- strncmp() - Binary safe string comparison of the first n characters
- strstr() - Find the first occurrence of a string
- setlocale() - Set locale information
Found A Problem?
chatfielddaniel at googlemail dot com ¶
15 years ago
The function treats '_' as after letters and numbers when it would be placed before logically.