Re: Comparing 2 strings.
| From: | Ed Curtis | Date: | Wed, 19 Nov 2003 19:31:28 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Comparing 2 strings. | ||
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I guess I did miss that it says that the comparison is case sensitive
and binary safe.
Thanks,
Ed
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, CPT John W. Holmes wrote:
> From: "Ed Curtis" <ed@homes2see.com>
>
> > I currently store text from a MySQL blob field in a string $orig_text. I
> > need to compare that with something someone type in from a form stored in
> > $new_text. How would I go about comparing them to see if they are
> > different or exactly the same? strcmp doesn't look like it will handle
> > this too well.
>
> Why would you say that when strcmp() is exactly what you need to use??
>
> ---John Holmes...
>