1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2 3 4<!--*********************************************************** 5 * 6 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 7 * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 8 * distributed with this work for additional information 9 * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 10 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 11 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 12 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 13 * 14 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 15 * 16 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 17 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 18 * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 19 * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 20 * specific language governing permissions and limitations 21 * under the License. 22 * 23 ***********************************************************--> 24 25 26 27<helpdocument version="1.0"> 28<meta> 29<topic id="textsbasicshared03120403xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 30<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">StrComp Function [Runtime]</title> 31<filename>/text/sbasic/shared/03120403.xhp</filename> 32</topic> 33<history> 34<created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created> 35<lastedited date="2004-08-24T14:33:33">converted from old format - fpe</lastedited> 36</history> 37</meta> 38<body> 39<section id="strcomp"> 40<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3156027"><bookmark_value>StrComp function</bookmark_value> 41</bookmark> 42<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3156027" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="1"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03120403.xhp" name="StrComp Function [Runtime]">StrComp Function [Runtime]</link></paragraph> 43<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155805" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="2">Compares two strings and returns an integer value that represents the result of the comparison.</paragraph> 44</section> 45<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3153345" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="3">Syntax:</paragraph> 46<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150503" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="4">StrComp (Text1 As String, Text2 As String[, Compare])</paragraph> 47<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3147574" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="5">Return value:</paragraph> 48<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156152" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="6">Integer</paragraph> 49<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150984" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="7">Parameter:</paragraph> 50<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153061" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="8"> 51<emph>Text1:</emph> Any string expression</paragraph> 52<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147560" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="9"> 53<emph>Text2:</emph> Any string expression</paragraph> 54<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3146796" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="10"> 55<emph>Compare:</emph> This optional parameter sets the comparison method. If Compare = 1, the string comparison is case-sensitive. If Compare = 0, no distinction is made between uppercase and lowercase letters.</paragraph> 56<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3154940" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="U" oldref="13">Return value</paragraph> 57<list type="unordered"> 58<listitem> 59<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3150358" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="27">If Text1 < Text2 the function returns -1</paragraph> 60</listitem> 61<listitem> 62<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3151043" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="28">If Text1 = Text2 the function returns 0</paragraph> 63</listitem> 64<listitem> 65<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3158410" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="29">If Text1 > Text2 the function returns 1</paragraph> 66</listitem> 67</list> 68<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#errorcode"/> 69<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#err5"/> 70<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3153968" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="18">Example:</paragraph> 71<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3151381" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="19">Sub ExampleStrComp</paragraph> 72<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154685" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="20">Dim iVar As Single</paragraph> 73<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148453" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="21">Dim sVar As String</paragraph> 74<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153369" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="22">iVar = 123.123</paragraph> 75<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145786" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="23">sVar = Str$(iVar)</paragraph> 76<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3146975" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="24">Msgbox strcomp(sVar , Str$(iVar),1)</paragraph> 77<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150487" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="25">end sub</paragraph> 78</body> 79</helpdocument> 80