Compare

Performs a case-sensitive comparison of two strings.

-1, if string1 is less than string2 0, if string1 is equal to string2 1, if string1 is greater than string2

Method Signature

Compare(string1=[any], string2=[any])

Arguments

Argument	Type	Required	Description	Default
string1	any	true	The first string to compare
string2	any	true	The second string to compare

Examples

Tag Syntax

Run Example

<bx:set comparison = compare( "Boxlang", "boxlang" ) >
<bx:dump var="#comparison#"/>     

Result: -1

Additional Examples

Run Example

dump( Compare( "100 Main St.", "675 East Avenue" ) ); // -1
dump( Compare( "500 Main St.", "1 Cupertino Way" ) ); // 1
dump( Compare( "500 Main St.", "500 Main St." ) );
 // 0

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• Ascii

• CamelCase

• Char

• CharsetDecode

• CharsetEncode

• CompareNoCase

• Find

• FindNoCase

• FindOneOf

• Insert

• JSStringFormat

• Justify

• KebabCase

• LCase

• Left

• ListReduce

• LJustify

• LTrim

• Mid

• ParagraphFormat

• PascalCase

• QueryStringToStruct

• ReEscape

• ReFind

• reFindNoCase

• ReMatch

• reMatchNoCase

• RemoveChars

• RepeatString

• Replace

• ReplaceList

• ReplaceListNoCase

• ReplaceNoCase

• ReReplace

• reReplaceNoCase

• Reverse

• Right

• RJustify

• RTrim

• Slugify

• SnakeCase

• SpanExcluding

• SpanIncluding

• SQLPrettify

• StringBind

• StringEach

• StringEvery

• StringFilter

• StringMap

• StringReduce

• StringReduceRight

• StringSome

• StringSort

• StripCR

• Trim

• TrueFalseFormat

• UCase

• UCFirst

• Val

• Wrap

• YesNoFormat