2010-09-20 STRCMP(3) #include (at most) n characters of s1 and s2. SVr4, 4.3BSD, C89, C99. The strcmp() function compares the two strings s1 and s2. It returns The strncmp() function is similar, except it only compares the first The strcmp() and strncmp() functions return an integer less than, equal This page is part of release 3.35 of the Linux man-pages project. A an integer less than, equal to, or greater than zero if s1 is found, bcmp(3), memcmp(3), strcasecmp(3), strcoll(3), string(3), strn†be found at http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/. casecmp(3), strverscmp(3), wcscmp(3), wcsncmp(3) description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can int strcmp(const char *s1, const char *s2); int strncmp(const char *s1, const char *s2, size_t n); respectively, to be less than, to match, or be greater than s2. respectively, to be less than, to match, or be greater than s2. strcmp, strncmp - compare two strings to, or greater than zero if s1 (or the first n bytes thereof) is found, COLOPHON CONFORMING TO DESCRIPTION NAME RETURN VALUE SEE ALSO STRCMP(3) Linux Programmer's Manual STRCMP(3) SYNOPSIS 