Created: December-15, 2020 | Updated: October-17, 2021 This tutorial introduces how to compare char in C. A char variable is an
8-bit integral value, from 0 to 255. Here, 0 stands for the C-null character, and 255 stands for an empty symbol. A char variable has its own ASCII value. So the characters are compared according to the ASCII values. The complete program is as below:Compare Char in C Using the Comparison Operators
Output:
m is smaller than n.Compare Char in C Using the strcmp() Function in C
The strcmp() function is defined in the string header file and used to compare two strings character by character.
If both strings’ first characters are equal, the next character of the two strings will be compared. It continues till the corresponding characters of both strings are either different or a null character '\0' is reached.
The syntax for strcmp() function is as below.
int strcmp (const char* firstStringValue, const char* secondStringValue);- If two strings are equal or identical, it returns 0.
- If the ASCII value of the first unmatched character is greater than the second, It returns a positive integer value
- If the ASCII value of the first unmatched character is less than the second,it returns a negative integer value.
The complete program to compare two strings is as below:
#include<stdio.h> #include<stdlib.h> #include<string.h> int main(void) { char firstString= "b", secondString= "b",thirdString= "B"; int result; result= strcmp(&firstString, &secondString); printf("strcmp(firstString, secondString) = %d\n", result); result = strcmp(&firstString, &thirdString); printf("strcmp(firstString,thirdString) = %d\n", result); return 0; }The output is:
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