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strncmp

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strncmpComparaison binaire des n premiers caractères

Description

int strncmp ( string $str1 , string $str2 , int $len )

Identique à la fonction strcmp(), avec la différence que vous pouvez spécifier le nombre maximum de caractères à utiliser pour la comparaison de str1 avec str2 grâce au paramètre len .

Notez que cette comparaison est sensible à la casse.

Liste de paramètres

str1

La première chaîne.

str2

La seconde chaîne.

len

Nombre de caractères à utiliser pour la comparaison.

Valeurs de retour

Retourne < 0 si str1 est inférieure à str2 ; > 0 si str1 est supérieure à str2 , et 0 si les deux chaînes sont égales.



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strncmp
codeguru at crazyprogrammer dot cba dot pl
24-Jan-2008 08:07
I ran the following experiment to compare arrays.

1 st - using (substr($key,0,5 == "HTTP_") & 2 nd - using (!strncmp($key, 'HTTP_', 5))

I wanted to work out the fastest way to get the first few characters from a array

BENCHMARK ITERATION RESULT IS:
if (substr($key,0,5 == "HTTP_").... -   0,000481s
if (!strncmp($key, 'HTTP_', 5)).... -     0,000405s

strncmp() is 20% faster than substr() :D

<?php
// SAMPLE FUNCTION
function strncmp_match($arr)
{
foreach (
$arr as $key => $val)
    {
   
//if (substr($key,0,5 == "HTTP_")
   
if (!strncmp($key, 'HTTP_', 5))   
        {
   
$out[$key] = $val;
        }
    }
return
$out;
}

// EXAMPLE USE
?><pre><?php
print_r
(strncmp_match($_SERVER));
?></pre>

will display code like this:

Array
(
    [HTTP_ACCEPT] => XXX
    [HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE] => pl
    [HTTP_UA_CPU] => x64
    [HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING] => gzip, deflate
    [HTTP_USER_AGENT] => Mozilla/4.0
                                    (compatible; MSIE 7.0;
                                     Windows NT 5.1;
                                    .NET CLR 1.1.4322;
                                    .NET CLR 2.0.50727)
    [HTTP_HOST] => XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
    [HTTP_CONNECTION] => Keep-Alive
    [HTTP_COOKIE] => __utma=XX;__utmz=XX.utmccn=(direct)|utmcsr=(direct)|utmcmd=(none)
)
Anonymous
17-Apr-2002 01:46
strncmp("sample","sam",4) returns 1 because the final requirement is if one string terminates before len, then the other must also terminate at that position. 

You can imagine that all your strings have one more final, invisible "termination" character.  If that termination character happens to be within in len, then it must match, too.

For instance, write that termination character with, say, the sequence "\0". Then you can equivalently consider that function call as strncmp("sample\0","sam\0",4).

So, the "p" in "sample" does not match the termination character in "sam".

strpbrk> <strncasecmp
Last updated: Fri, 05 Sep 2008
 
 
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