strcoll

(PHP 4 >= 4.0.5, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

strcoll — Comparación de strings localizadas

Descripción

strcoll(string $string1, string $string2): int

Se debe tener en cuenta que esta comparación distingue entre mayúsculas y minúsculas, y que, a diferencia de strcmp(), no es compatible con strings binarios.

strcoll() utiliza la configuración local/regional actual para realizar la comparación. Si la configuración local/regional actual es C o POSIX, esta función es entonces equivalente a la función strcmp().

Parámetros

string1: El primer string.
string2: El segundo string.

Valores devueltos

Devuelve < 0 si string1 es menor que string2; > 0 si string1 es mayor que string2, y 0 si los dos strings son iguales.

Ver también

preg_match() - Realiza una búsqueda de coincidencia con una expresión regular estándar
strcmp() - Comparación binaria de strings
strcasecmp() - Comparación insensible a mayúsculas/minúsculas de strings binarios
substr() - Devuelve un segmento de string
stristr() - Versión insensible a mayúsculas y minúsculas de strstr
strncasecmp() - Comparación binaria de strings insensible a mayúsculas/minúsculas
strncmp() - Comparación binaria de los n primeros caracteres
strstr() - Encuentra la primera ocurrencia en un string
setlocale() - Establece la información de configuración local

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User Contributed Notes 3 notes

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Anonymous ¶

22 years ago

Note that some platforms implement strcmp() and strcasecmp() according to the current locale when strings are not binary equal, so that strcmp() and strcoll() will return the same value! This depends on how the PHP strcmp() function is compiled (i.e. if it uses the platform specific strcmp() found in its standard library!).
In that case, the only difference between strcoll() and strcmp() is that strcoll() may return 0 for distinct strings(i.e. consider strings are equal) while strcmp() will differentiate them if they have distinct binary encoding! This typically occurs on Asian systems.
What you can be sure is that strcmp() will always differentiate strings that are encoded differently, but the relative order may still use the current locale setting for collation order!

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mkroese at eljakim dot nl ¶

5 years ago

You should not rely on this function to properly compare localized strings.

<?php
$a = "Österreich";
$b = "Oesterreich";
$z = "Zeta";

echo setlocale(LC_ALL, 0) . PHP_EOL; // (on my mac: C/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/C/C)
echo strcoll($a, $b) . PHP_EOL; // 116
echo strcoll($b, $a) . PHP_EOL; // -116
echo strcoll($a, $z) . PHP_EOL; // 105

echo setlocale(LC_ALL, "de_DE") . PHP_EOL; // de_DE
echo strcoll($a, $b) . PHP_EOL; // 135
echo strcoll($b, $a) . PHP_EOL; // -135
echo strcoll($a, $z) . PHP_EOL; // 124

$collator = new Collator("de_DE");
echo $collator->compare($a, $b); // 1
echo $collator->compare($b, $a); // -1
echo $collator->compare($a, $z); // -1
?>

Using the Collator (from the intl module) you will get the expected result for e.g. sorting such that the string "Österreich" will rank higher than "Zeta", but after "Oesterreich".

strcoll's output will differ per platform, locale and used c library, while the Collator will give more stable results on different platforms.

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sakkarinlaohawisut15 at hotmail dot com ¶

22 years ago

strcoll()'s behavior is sometimes a little bit confusing. It depends on LC_COLLATE in your locale.

<?php

 $a = 'a';
 $b = 'A';

 print strcmp ($a, $b) . "\n"; // prints 1

setlocale (LC_COLLATE, 'C');
 print "C: " . strcoll ($a, $b) . "\n"; // prints 1

 setlocale (LC_COLLATE, 'de_DE');
 print "de_DE: " . strcoll ($a, $b) . "\n"; // prints -2

 setlocale (LC_COLLATE, 'de_CH');
print "de_CH: " . strcoll ($a, $b) . "\n"; // prints -2

 setlocale (LC_COLLATE, 'en_US');
 print "en_US: " . strcoll ($a, $b) . "\n"; // prints -2

?>

This is useful e. g. if want to sort an array by using strcoll:

<?php

 $a = array ('a', 'A', '?', '?', 'b', 'B');

 setlocale (LC_COLLATE, 'C');
 usort ($a, 'strcoll');
 print_r ($a);

?>

This is like sort($a):
 Array
 (
    [0] => A
    [1] => B
  [2] => a
    [3] => b
    [4] => ?
    [5] => ?
 )

<?php

 setlocale (LC_COLLATE, 'de_DE');
usort ($a, 'strcoll');
 print_r ($a)

?>
 
This is completely different:
 Array
 (
    [0] => a
    [1] => A
    [2] => ?
    [3] => ?
    [4] => b
  [5] => B
 )

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