• NAME
  
  strcmp, strncmp - compare two strings
• SYNOPSIS
  

  
   #include <string.h>
  
   int strcmp(const char * s1 , const char * s2 );
  
  
      int strncmp(const char * s1 , const char * s2 , size_t  n ); 

• DESCRIPTION
  
  The
  strcmp ()
  function compares the two strings s1 and
  s2.
  It returns an integer less than, equal to, or greater
  than zero if s1 is found, respectively, to be less than,
  to match, or be greater than s2.
  
  
  
  The
  strncmp ()
  function is similar, except it only compares
  the first (at most) n characters of s1 and s2.
  
• RETURN VALUE
  
  The
  strcmp ()
  and
  strncmp ()
  functions return an integer
  less than, equal to, or greater than zero if s1 (or the first
  n bytes thereof) is found, respectively, to be less than, to
  match, or be greater than s2.
  
• CONFORMING TO
  
  SVr4, 4.3BSD, C89, C99.
  
• SEE ALSO
  
  bcmp(3) ,
  memcmp(3) ,
  strcasecmp(3) ,
  strcoll(3) ,
  strncasecmp(3) ,
  wcscmp(3) ,
  wcsncmp(3)
  
• COLOPHON
  
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  http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.
  

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