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strnatcasecmp

(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

strnatcasecmp — Case insensitive string comparisons using a "natural order" algorithm

Description

strnatcasecmp(string $string1, string $string2): int

This function implements a comparison algorithm that orders alphanumeric strings in the way a human being would. The behaviour of this function is similar to strnatcmp(), except that the comparison is not case sensitive. For more information see: Martin Pool's » Natural Order String Comparison page.

Parameters

string1

The first string.

string2

The second string.

Return Values

Returns a value less than 0 if string1 is less than string2; a value greater than 0 if string1 is greater than string2, and 0 if they are equal. No particular meaning can be reliably inferred from the value aside from its sign.

Changelog

Version Description
8.2.0 This function is no longer guaranteed to return strlen($string1) - strlen($string2) when string lengths are not equal, but may now return -1 or 1 instead.

Examples

Example #1 strnatcasecmp() example

<?php

var_dump(strnatcasecmp('Apple', 'Banana'));
var_dump(strnatcasecmp('Banana', 'Apple'));
var_dump(strnatcasecmp('apple', 'Apple'));
?>

The above example will output:

int(-1)
int(1)
int(0)

See Also