Yep, and it comes in handy, especially in school, lol, in advanced algorithms and datastructures, I once submitted a project assignment that was 5 lines long, and instead of figuring out anagrams, strcmp was very helpful :)
Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4GLTE smartphone ----- Reply message ----- From: "tedd" <tedd.sperl...@gmail.com> To: "Joshua Kehn" <josh.k...@gmail.com>, "PHP General" <php-general@lists.php.net> Subject: [PHP] A Review Request Date: Sat, May 21, 2011 9:26 am At 2:49 PM -0400 5/19/11, Joshua Kehn wrote: >On May 19, 2011, at 2:44 PM, Andre Polykanine wrote: > >> Hello Alex, >> >> Two (stupid?) questions: >> 1. Why PHP_SELF is better than SCRIPT_NAME? >> 2. Why strcmp() is better than just comparing? >> >> -- >> With best regards from Ukraine, >> Andre >> Skype: Francophile >> My blog: http://oire.org/menelion (mostly in Russian) >> Twitter: http://twitter.com/m_elensule >> Facebook: http://facebook.com/menelion > >No idea about the first, and I've never used strcmp() before for an >equality check. If there is something I'm missing I would love to >know. > >Regards, > >-Josh -Josh: The function strcmp() simply evaluates two strings and reports back -1, 0, or 1 depending upon their alphabetical relationship. Cheers, tedd -- ------- http://sperling.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php