strncasecmp
(PHP 4 >= 4.0.2)
strncasecmp -- Binary safe case-insensitive string comparison of the first n charactersDescription
int strncasecmp ( string str1, string str2, int len)This function is similar to strcasecmp(), with the difference that you can specify the (upper limit of the) number of characters ( len ) from each string to be used in the comparison.
Returns < 0 if str1 is less than str2 ; > 0 if str1 is greater than str2 , and 0 if they are equal.
See also ereg(), strcasecmp(), strcmp(), substr(), stristr(), and strstr().



