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# strcasecmp

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
      1
      2 $var1 = "Hello";
      3 $var2 = "hello";
      4 if ( !strcasecmp($var1,$var2) ) {
      5     echo '$var1 is equal to $var2 in a case-insensitive string comparison';
      6 }
      7

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

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