<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >substr_compare</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Manual PHP" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="String Functions" HREF="ref.strings.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="strtr" HREF="function.strtr.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="substr_count" HREF="function.substr-count.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-2"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Manual PHP</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.strtr.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Înapoi</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.substr-count.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Înainte</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.substr-compare" ></A >substr_compare</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN116200" ></A ><P > (PHP 5)</P >substr_compare -- Binary safe optionally case insensitive comparison of 2 strings from an offset, up to length characters </DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN116203" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >int <B CLASS="methodname" >substr_compare</B > ( string main_str, string str, int offset [, int length [, bool case_sensitivity]])<BR ></BR ><P > <B CLASS="function" >substr_compare()</B > compares <VAR CLASS="parameter" >main_str</VAR > from position <VAR CLASS="parameter" >offset</VAR > with <VAR CLASS="parameter" >str</VAR > up to <VAR CLASS="parameter" >length</VAR > characters. </P ><P > Returns < 0 if <VAR CLASS="parameter" >main_str</VAR > from position <VAR CLASS="parameter" >offset</VAR > is less than <VAR CLASS="parameter" >str</VAR >, > 0 if it is greater than <VAR CLASS="parameter" >str</VAR >, and 0 if they are equal. If <VAR CLASS="parameter" >length</VAR > is equal or greater than length of <VAR CLASS="parameter" >main_str</VAR > and <VAR CLASS="parameter" >length</VAR > is set, <B CLASS="function" >substr_compare()</B > prints warning and returns <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >FALSE</B ></TT >. </P ><P > If <VAR CLASS="parameter" >case_sensitivity</VAR > is <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >TRUE</B ></TT >, comparison is case sensitive. </P ><P > <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN116243" ></A ><P ><B >Exemplu 1. A <B CLASS="function" >substr_compare()</B > example</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><code><font color="#000000"> <font color="#0000BB"><?php<br /></font><font color="#007700">echo </font><font color="#0000BB">substr_compare</font><font color="#007700">(</font><font color="#DD0000">"abcde"</font><font color="#007700">, </font><font color="#DD0000">"bc"</font><font color="#007700">, </font><font color="#0000BB">1</font><font color="#007700">, </font><font color="#0000BB">2</font><font color="#007700">); </font><font color="#FF8000">// 0<br /></font><font color="#007700">echo </font><font color="#0000BB">substr_compare</font><font color="#007700">(</font><font color="#DD0000">"abcde"</font><font color="#007700">, </font><font color="#DD0000">"bcg"</font><font color="#007700">, </font><font color="#0000BB">1</font><font color="#007700">, </font><font color="#0000BB">2</font><font color="#007700">); </font><font color="#FF8000">// 0<br /></font><font color="#007700">echo </font><font color="#0000BB">substr_compare</font><font color="#007700">(</font><font color="#DD0000">"abcde"</font><font color="#007700">, </font><font color="#DD0000">"BC"</font><font color="#007700">, </font><font color="#0000BB">1</font><font color="#007700">, </font><font color="#0000BB">2</font><font color="#007700">, </font><font color="#0000BB">true</font><font color="#007700">); </font><font color="#FF8000">// 0<br /></font><font color="#007700">echo </font><font color="#0000BB">substr_compare</font><font color="#007700">(</font><font color="#DD0000">"abcde"</font><font color="#007700">, </font><font color="#DD0000">"bc"</font><font color="#007700">, </font><font color="#0000BB">1</font><font color="#007700">, </font><font color="#0000BB">3</font><font color="#007700">); </font><font color="#FF8000">// 1<br /></font><font color="#007700">echo </font><font color="#0000BB">substr_compare</font><font color="#007700">(</font><font color="#DD0000">"abcde"</font><font color="#007700">, </font><font color="#DD0000">"cd"</font><font color="#007700">, </font><font color="#0000BB">1</font><font color="#007700">, </font><font color="#0000BB">2</font><font color="#007700">); </font><font color="#FF8000">// -1<br /></font><font color="#007700">echo </font><font color="#0000BB">substr_compare</font><font color="#007700">(</font><font color="#DD0000">"abcde"</font><font color="#007700">, </font><font color="#DD0000">"abc"</font><font color="#007700">, </font><font color="#0000BB">5</font><font color="#007700">, </font><font color="#0000BB">1</font><font color="#007700">); </font><font color="#FF8000">// warning<br /></font><font color="#0000BB">?></font> </font> </code></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.strtr.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Înapoi</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Acasã</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.substr-count.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Înainte</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >strtr</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.strings.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Sus</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >substr_count</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >