MATLAB Function Reference

strcmpi

Compare strings, ignoring case

Syntax

• strcmpi(str1, str2)
  strcmpi(S, T)
  

Description

strcmpi(str1, str2) returns logical 1 (true) if strings str1 and str2 are the same except for case and logical 0 (false) otherwise.

strcmpi(S, T) when either S or T is a cell array of strings, returns an array the same size as S and T containing logical 1 (true) for those elements of S and T that match except for case, and logical 0 (false) otherwise. S and T must be the same size (or one can be a scalar cell). Either one can also be a character array with the right number of rows.

Remarks

strcmpi is intended for comparison of character data. When used to compare numeric data, strcmpi returns logical 0.

strcmpi supports international character sets.

See Also

strcmp, strncmpi, strncmp, strmatch, strfind, findstr, regexp, regexpi, regexprep

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