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CRTL, strcmp
*Conan The Librarian
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Compares two ASCII character strings and returns a negative,
0, or positive integer, indicating that the ASCII values of the
individual characters in the first string are less than, equal
to, or greater than the values in the second string.
Format
#include <string.h>
int strcmp (const char *str_1, const char *str_2);
str_1, str_2
Pointers to character strings.
The strings are compared until a null character is encountered or
until the strings differ.
< 0 Indicates that str_1 is less than str_2.
> 0 Indicates that str_1 is greater than str_2.