strcasecmp

(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)

strcasecmp — 二进制安全比较字符串（不区分大小写）

说明

strcasecmp ( string $str1 , string $str2 ) : int

二进制安全比较字符串（不区分大小写）。

参数

str1

第一个字符串。

str2

第二个字符串。

返回值

如果 str1 小于 str2 返回 < 0； 如果 str1 大于 str2 返回 > 0；如果两者相等，返回 0。

范例

Example #1 strcasecmp() 范例

<?php
$var1 = "Hello";
$var2 = "hello";
if (strcasecmp($var1, $var2) == 0) {
    echo '$var1 is equal to $var2 in a case-insensitive string comparison';
}
?>

参见

  • strcmp() - 二进制安全字符串比较
  • preg_match() - 执行匹配正则表达式
  • substr_compare() - 二进制安全比较字符串（从偏移位置比较指定长度）
  • strncasecmp() - 二进制安全比较字符串开头的若干个字符（不区分大小写）
  • stristr() - strstr 函数的忽略大小写版本
  • substr() - 返回字符串的子串

User Contributed Notes

chrislarham at NOSPAM dot outlook dot com 13-Oct-2018 08:47
I didn't see any explanation in the documentation as to precisely how the positive/negative return values are calculated for unequal strings.

After a bit of experimentation it appears that it's the difference in alphabetical position of the first character in unequal strings.

For example, the letter 'z' is the 26th letter while the letter 'a' is the 1st letter:

<?php

      $zappl = "zappl";
      $apple = "apple";

      echo strcasecmp($zappl, $apple); #outputs 25 [26 - 1]
      echo strcasecmp($apple, $zappl); #outputs -25 [1 - 26]

?>

This might be incredibly obvious to most people, but hopefully it will clarify the calculation process for some others.
chris at cmbuckley dot co dot uk 28-Dec-2011 04:59
A simple multibyte-safe case-insensitive string comparison:

<?php

function mb_strcasecmp($str1, $str2, $encoding = null) {
    if (null === $encoding) { $encoding = mb_internal_encoding(); }
    return strcmp(mb_strtoupper($str1, $encoding), mb_strtoupper($str2, $encoding));
}

?>

Caveat: watch out for edge cases like "?".
alvaro at demogracia dot com 29-Jul-2010 05:35
Don't forget this is a single-byte function: in Unicode strings it'll provide incoherent results as soon as both strings differ only in case. There doesn't seem to exist a built-in multi-byte alternative so you need to write your own, taking into account both character encoding and collation.
27-Aug-2002 06:53
The sample above is only true on some platforms that only use a simple 'C' locale, where individual bytes are considered as complete characters that are converted to lowercase before being differentiated.

Other locales (see LC_COLLATE and LC_ALL) use the difference of collation order of characters, where characters may be groups of bytes taken from the input strings, or simply return -1, 0, or 1 as the collation order is not simply defined by comparing individual characters but by more complex rules.

Don't base your code on a specific non null value returned by strcmp() or strcasecmp(): it is not portable. Just consider the sign of the result and be sure to use the correct locale!