strncasecmp
(PHP 4 >= 4.0.2, PHP 5)
strncasecmp -- Binary safe case-insensitive string comparison of the first n charactersDescription
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 (len
) from each
string to be used in the comparison.
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(), strcasecmp(), strcmp(), substr(), stristr(), and strstr().