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strncmp Сравнение первых n символов строк без учета регистра, безопасное для данных в двоичной форме

Описание

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

Эта функция подобна strcmp(), за исключением того, что можно указать максимальное количество символов в обоих строках, которые будут участвовать в сравнении.

Возвращает отрицательное число, если str1 меньше, чем str2 ; положительное число, если str1 больше, чем str2 , и 0 если строки равны.

Эта функция учитывает регистр символов.

См. также описание функций ereg(), strncasecmp(), strcasecmp(), substr(), stristr(), strcmp() и strstr().



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strncmp
codeguru at crazyprogrammer dot cba dot pl
24-Jan-2008 11:07
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 04:46
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
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