strnatcmp区分字母大小写php,PHP strnatcmp 用法 手册 | 示例代码

This function has some interesting behaviour on strings consisting of mixed numbers and letters.

One may expect that such a mixed string would be treated as alpha-numeric, but that is not true.

var_dump(strnatcmp('23','123')); →

int(-1)

As expected, 23<123   (even though first digit is higher, overall number is smaller)

var_dump(strnatcmp('yz','xyz')); →

int(1)

As expected, yz>xyz   (string comparison, irregardless of string length)

var_dump(strnatcmp('2x','12y')); →

int(-1)

Remarkable, 2x<12y    (does a numeric comparison)

var_dump(strnatcmp('20x','12y'));

int(1)

Remarkable, 20x>12y    (does a numeric comparison)

It seems to be splitting what is being compared into runs of numbers and letters, and then comparing each run in isolation, until it has an ordering difference.