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CompareText

Compare 2 ansistrings case insensitive.

Declaration

Source position: sysstrh.inc line 79

function CompareText(

  const S1: string;

  const S2: string

):Integer;

Description

CompareText compares two strings, S1 and S2, and returns the following result:

<0
if S1<S2.
0
if S1=S2.
>0
if S1>S2.

The comparision of the two strings is case-insensitive. The function does not take internationalization settings into account, it simply compares ASCII values.

Errors

None.

See also

AnsiCompareText

  

Compare 2 ansistrings, case insensitive, ignoring accents characters.

AnsiCompareStr

  

Compare 2 ansistrings, case sensitive, ignoring accents characters.

CompareStr

  

Compare 2 ansistrings case-sensitively, ignoring special characters.

Example

Program Example66;

{ This program demonstrates the CompareText function }
{$H+}

Uses sysutils;

Procedure TestIt (S1,S2 : String);

Var R : Longint;

begin
  R:=CompareText(S1,S2);
  Write ('"',S1,'" is ');
  If R<0 then
    write ('less than ')
  else If R=0 then
    Write ('equal to ')
  else
    Write ('larger than ');
  Writeln ('"',S2,'"');
end;

Begin
  Testit('One string','One smaller string');
  Testit('One string','one string');
  Testit('One string','One string');
  Testit('One string','One tall string');
End.

Documentation generated on: Mar 17 2017