There are two ideal ways to compare strings:


- Non-case-sensitive comparison

- Case-sensitive comparison

The non-case-sensitive comparison compares two strings regardless of the character case status (uppercase vs. lowercase). In this type of comparison, the strings "HELLO" and "Hello" are considered to be a match.

For example:

If (Length($String1)=Length($String2))

 If ($String1=$String2)

  $b_SameString:=True ` Same


 Else

  $b_SameString:=False ` Not the same

 
End if


End if

If $String1 is "HELLO" and $String2 is "Hello", $b_SameString will set to True.

For the case-sensitive comparison, the ASCII value of each character in the strings must be compared instead. Since an uppercase character returns a different ASCII value than its lowercase character, the comparison will tell us immediately whether the strings are identical.

For example:

If (Length($String1)=Length($String2))

 For ($i;1;Length($String1))

  If (Ascii($String1[[$i]])#Ascii($String2[[$i]]))

   $b_SameString:=False ` Not the same

   $i:=Length($String1)+1 ` Break out

  
End if

 
End for


End if

If $String1 is "HELLO" and $String2 is "Hello", $b_SameString will set to False.