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strcmp()

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Applies to: ✅ Microsoft Fabric ✅ Azure Data Explorer ✅ Azure Monitor ✅ Microsoft Sentinel

Compares two strings.

The function starts comparing the first character of each string. If they're equal to each other, it continues with the following pairs until the characters differ or until the end of shorter string is reached.

Syntax

strcmp(string1, string2)

Learn more about syntax conventions.

Parameters

Name Type Required Description
string1 string ✔️ The first input string for comparison.
string2 string ✔️ The second input string for comparison.

Returns

Returns an integer value indicating the relationship between the strings:

  • <0 - the first character that doesn't match has a lower value in string1 than in string2
  • 0 - the contents of both strings are equal
  • >0 - the first character that doesn't match has a greater value in string1 than in string2

Example

datatable(string1:string, string2:string) [
    "ABC","ABC",
    "abc","ABC",
    "ABC","abc",
    "abcde","abc"
]
| extend result = strcmp(string1,string2)

Output

string1 string2 result
ABC ABC 0
abc ABC 1
ABC abc -1
abcde abc 1