(PHP 5 >= 5.3.0, PECL intl >= 1.0.0)
Collator::compare -- collator_compare — Compare two Unicode strings
Object oriented style
$str1
, string $str2
)Procedural style
Compare two Unicode strings according to collation rules.
coll
Collator object.
str1
The first string to compare.
str2
The second string to compare.
Return comparison result:
1 if str1 is greater than
str2 ;
0 if str1 is equal to
str2;
-1 if str1 is less than
str2 .
FALSE
is returned.
This function may
return Boolean FALSE, but may also return a non-Boolean value which
evaluates to FALSE. Please read the section on Booleans for more
information. Use the ===
operator for testing the return value of this
function.
Example #1 collator_compare()example
<?php
$s1 = 'Hello';
$s2 = 'hello';
$coll = collator_create( 'en_US' );
$res = collator_compare( $coll, $s1, $s2 );
if ($res === false) {
echo collator_get_error_message( $coll );
} else if( $res > 0 ) {
echo "s1 is greater than s2\n";
} else if( $res < 0 ) {
echo "s1 is less than s2\n";
} else {
echo "s1 is equal to s2\n";
}
?>
The above example will output: