MATLAB Function Reference |
Compare first n
characters of strings, ignoring case
Syntax
Description
strncmpi('str1', 'str2', n)
returns logical 1
(true
) if the first n
characters of the strings str1
and str2
are the same except for case, and logical 0 (false
) otherwise.
TF = strncmpi(S, T, n),
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 (up to n
characters), 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
strncmpi
is intended for comparison of character data. When used to compare numeric data, strncmpi
returns logical 0
.
strncmpi
supports international character sets.
See Also
strncmp
, strcmpi
, strcmp
, strmatch
, strfind
, findstr
, regexp
, regexp
i, regexprep
strncmp | strread |
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