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Emil · 01-12-2009, 08:39 AM

I want to compare 2 strings but it shouldn't matter if the strings are uppercase or lowercase. Can anyone show me what the code would look like?

tnaindex · 01-12-2009, 08:50 AM

if (strtolower($string1)==strtolower($string2))
{
Thank_me();
}

Babaganoosh · 01-12-2009, 08:51 AM

http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.strcasecmp.php

Emil · 01-12-2009, 10:12 AM

Thanks!!

polle54 · 01-12-2009, 10:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tnaindex

if (strtolower($string1)==strtolower($string2))
{
Thank_me();
}

That's one way to do it, but there's a string function for it, so if it's a operation that has to repeated many times I think there's less overhead in using:

Dispite of what you might think is indicated by the name, this function is case insencitive

Code:

if(strcasecmp($string1,$string2) == 0)
{
   Thank_me_more();
}

Returns:
* 0 - if the two strings are equal
* <0 - if string1 is less than string2
* >0 - if string1 is greater than string2

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tnaindex Registered User Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 26	if (strtolower($string1)==strtolower($string2)) { Thank_me(); }