strncmp
Description
int strncmp ( string str1, string str2, int len)This function is similar to strcmp(), 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.
Note that this comparison is case sensitive.
See also ereg(), strncasecmp(), strcasecmp(), substr(), stristr(), strcmp(), and strstr().
