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Locale based string comparison
(PHP 4 >= 4.0.5, PHP 5)
Code Examples / Notes » strcollsakkarinlaohawisut15
strcoll()'s behavior is sometimes a little bit confusing. It depends on LC_COLLATE in your locale. <?php $a = 'a'; $b = 'A'; print strcmp ($a, $b) . "\n"; // prints 1 setlocale (LC_COLLATE, 'C'); print "C: " . strcoll ($a, $b) . "\n"; // prints 1 setlocale (LC_COLLATE, 'de_DE'); print "de_DE: " . strcoll ($a, $b) . "\n"; // prints -2 setlocale (LC_COLLATE, 'de_CH'); print "de_CH: " . strcoll ($a, $b) . "\n"; // prints -2 setlocale (LC_COLLATE, 'en_US'); print "en_US: " . strcoll ($a, $b) . "\n"; // prints -2 ?> This is useful e. g. if want to sort an array by using strcoll: <?php $a = array ('a', 'A', 'ä', 'Ä', 'b', 'B'); setlocale (LC_COLLATE, 'C'); usort ($a, 'strcoll'); print_r ($a); ?> This is like sort($a): Array ( [0] => A [1] => B [2] => a [3] => b [4] => Ä [5] => ä ) <?php setlocale (LC_COLLATE, 'de_DE'); usort ($a, 'strcoll'); print_r ($a) ?> This is completely different: Array ( [0] => a [1] => A [2] => ä [3] => Ä [4] => b [5] => B ) 27-aug-2002 03:05
Note that some platforms implement strcmp() and strcasecmp() according to the current locale when strings are not binary equal, so that strcmp() and strcoll() will return the same value! This depends on how the PHP strcmp() function is compiled (i.e. if it uses the platform specific strcmp() found in its standard library!). In that case, the only difference between strcoll() and strcmp() is that strcoll() may return 0 for distinct strings(i.e. consider strings are equal) while strcmp() will differentiate them if they have distinct binary encoding! This typically occurs on Asian systems. What you can be sure is that strcmp() will always differentiate strings that are encoded differently, but the relative order may still use the current locale setting for collation order! |
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