What does the .compare function do?

Question

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Answer 1

Mukul
There's no big of deal there. The mechanism behind the compare function looks through the first string let's say "dog" then the second one let's say "cat". It begins its comparison by looking at the first character of the first string which is 'd' and then first character of the second string which is 'c'. Clearly 'd' is greater than 'c' and there's no need for comparing the rest of the characters together, so the whole thing returns 1 which tells us that the first string is greater than the second one.

string dog = "dog";
string cat = "cat";

// All three possibilities of comparison
cout << dog.compare(cat) << endl; // 1
cout << cat.compare(dog) << endl; // -1
cout << dog.compare(dog) << endl; // 0

Alexander Sokolov
Indeed, it's case sensitive. Try to compare dog = "Dog" and cat = "cat" as dog.compare(cat)

Answer 2

Hello, Mukul !
compare() — Compares the two specified "String" objects whether or not case-sensitive and returns an integer that indicates their relative position in the sort order.
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Answer 3

Mukul the integer -1, 0 or 1 depending on the sort order position of the first string compared to the second one

Answer 4

Mukul http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/string/string/compare/

Answer 5

Thanq you C++ Soldier (Babak)
I understand it

Answer 6

What integer

Answer 7

Plz tell me how exactly

Answer 8

I couldn't really understand much but thanks guyz.