strcoll

Compares two strings.

Defined in header <string.h>

Syntax

#include <string.h>
int strcolKchar *sl, char *s2);

Portability

Remarks

strcoll compares the string pointed to by si to the string pointed to by s2, according to the collating sequence set by setlocale.

Return value

strcoll returns a value that is

< 0 if si is less than s2 =- 0 if si is the same as s2 > 0 if s2 is greater than s2

See also

• strcmp
• strcmpi
• stricmp
• strncmp
• strncmpi
• strnicmp
• strxfrm

Example

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

int main(void)
{-
   char *two = "International";
   char *one = "Borland";
   int check;
   check = strcoll (one, two);
   if (check == 0)
      printf("The strings are equal\n");
   if (check <  0)
      printf("%s comes before %s\n", one, two);
   if (check >  0)
      printf("%s comes before %s\n", two, one);
   return 0;

Differences from modern implementations

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Modern references

• cppreference (search)
• Microsoft C runtime (search)

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Stable link: /3.1/string.h/strcoll/ · short form /3.1/strcoll/