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# strcasecmp

(3.0.2 - 3.0.18 only, PHP 4 >= 4.0.0)

strcasecmp -- Binary safe case-insensitive string comparison

## Description

``int strcasecmp` (string str1, string str2)`

Returns < 0 if `str1` is less than `str2`; > 0 if `str1` is greater than `str2`, and 0 if they are equal.

Example 1. strcasecmp() example
    $var1 = "Hello";
    $var2 = "hello";
    if (!strcasecmp($var1, $var2)) {
        echo '$var1 is equal to $var2 in a case-insensitive string comparison';
    }

See also ereg(), strcmp(), substr(), stristr(), strncasecmp(), and strstr().

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