<HEAD> <TITLE> strcmp - determines the lexical relationship between two strings </TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY BACKGROUND=http://www.imaginary.com/~beek/gifs/bg.jpg TEXT=#000000 ALINK=#FFFF00 VLINK=#550000 LINK=#000099> <center> <H1> strcmp - determines the lexical relationship between two strings </H1> </center> <p> <b> int strcmp( string one, string two ); </b> <p> This implementatin of strcmp() is identical to the one found in C libraries. If string one lexically precedes string two, then strcmp() returns a number less than 0. If the two strings have the same value, strcmp() returns 0. If string two lexically precedes string one, then strcmp() returns a number greater than 0. This efunction is particularly useful in the compare functions needed by sort_array(). <p> Note that relational operators (<, >, etc) can also be used to compare strings. <p> See also: <A HREF=../arrays/sort_array.html> sort_array </A> <p> <HR> <ADDRESS> <A HREF=http://wagner.princeton.edu/~tim> Tim Hollebeek </A> <p> <A HREF="http://www.imaginary.com/~beek/"> Beek </A>@ZorkMUD, Lima Bean, IdeaExchange, TMI-2, and elsewhere </ADDRESS>