STRCMP(3)                                           Linux Programmer's Manual                                          STRCMP(3)



NAME
       strcmp, strncmp - compare two strings

SYNOPSIS
       #include <string.h>

       int strcmp(const char *s1, const char *s2);

       int strncmp(const char *s1, const char *s2, size_t n);

DESCRIPTION
       The  strcmp()  function  compares  the two strings s1 and s2.  It returns an integer less than, equal to, or greater than
       zero if s1 is found, respectively, to be less than, to match, or be greater than s2.

       The strncmp() function is similar, except it only compares the first (at most) n characters of s1 and s2.

RETURN VALUE
       The strcmp() and strncmp() functions return an integer less than, equal to, or greater than zero if s1 (or  the  first  n
       bytes thereof) is found, respectively, to be less than, to match, or be greater than s2.

CONFORMING TO
       SVr4, 4.3BSD, C89, C99.

SEE ALSO
       bcmp(3), memcmp(3), strcasecmp(3), strcoll(3), strncasecmp(3), strverscmp(3), wcscmp(3), wcsncmp(3)

COLOPHON
       This  page  is  part of release 3.25 of the Linux man-pages project.  A description of the project, and information about
       reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.



                                                           2009-04-21                                                  STRCMP(3)