note 46999 added to function.strcmp

Please tell what you mean by "alphabetically" and when you say "because of the way it works, it is not very useful..." or "I get strange results, 1 for strings that are equal, etc." : give an example where it does not work and/or show where your script works better! (To test some PHP code, it is sufficient to have a file of 3 lines: <form action='' method=POST><input type=submit value=Evaluate> <textarea id=c><?=$c=stripslashes($_POST['c'])?></textarea> <br>Result of the above:<pre><?=eval($c)?></pre></form>) Imagine how much time is lost for visitors trying to figure out what your program does differently from strcmp ? Imagine how much resources are wasted if PHP users are made to think that PHP functions don't work well and use the EXTREMELY inefficient routines proposed below (e.g. a string comparision routine that uses substr(...,$i,1) to access individual caracters...!) If the documentation says 'binary safe' this should mean that strings are compared byte by byte (according to internal format) - if strcmp() does instead use locale collation tables, this should be clearly mentioned in the documentation. ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strcmp.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+46999 Delete -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+46999&report=yes Reason: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+46999&report=yes&reason=bad+code Reason: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+46999&report=yes&reason=spam Reason: useless example -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+46999&report=yes&reason=useless+example Reason: contains commercial links -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+46999&report=yes&reason=contains+commercial+links Reason: useless note -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+46999&report=yes&reason=useless+note Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+46999&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php