Operators.CompareString(String, String, Boolean) Method

Reference

Definition

Namespace:: Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices

Assembly:: Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll

Assembly:: Microsoft.VisualBasic.Core.dll

Source:: Operators.vb

Source:: Operators.vb

Source:: Operators.vb

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Performs binary or text string comparison when given two strings.

This API supports the product infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code.

public:
 static int CompareString(System::String ^ Left, System::String ^ Right, bool TextCompare);

public static int CompareString (string Left, string Right, bool TextCompare);

public static int CompareString (string? Left, string? Right, bool TextCompare);

static member CompareString : string * string * bool -> int

Public Shared Function CompareString (Left As String, Right As String, TextCompare As Boolean) As Integer

Parameters

Left: String

Required. Any String expression.

Right: String

Required. Any String expression.

TextCompare: Boolean

Required. True to perform a case-insensitive string comparison; otherwise, False.

Returns

Int32

Value	Condition
-1	`Left` is less than `Right`.
0	`Left` is equal to `Right`.
1	`Left` is greater than `Right`.

Remarks

This class supports the Visual Basic compiler and is not intended to be used directly from your code.

When the Visual Basic equality operator is used to compare two strings, it passes the strings to the CompareString method along with a value of False for the TextCompare argument. This performs a case-sensitive comparison that is either ordinal or based on the current culture, depending on the value of the Option Compare statement.

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