note 30490 added to function.strncmp

I'm using strncmp to compare strings but some of the strings contain the & character when strncmp finds such character it gives <0 or 0> even if the string is equal to the other string instead of 0. Is there a way to solve this? -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strncmp.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+30490 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+30490 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+30490