What does it mean when a string is more or less than another string?

Question

I was studying one of the challenge questions for C and couldn't understand what it meant by a string is less/more than the other string.

https://code.sololearn.com/cJ9syaYHnzdy/?ref=app

https://www.tutorialspoint.com/c_standard_library/c_function_strcmp.htm

Answer 1

Two strings get compared char by char.

If equal - next letter.

As soon as you find that one char is lower than the other, you have your result.

Base of comparison is the ASCII table.

Answer 2

silentlearner

String is compared by string handling function strcmp(str,str1);
If str is alphabetically greater than str1 then it will return 1.
If str is alphabetically less than str1 then it will return -1.
If str and str1 are alphabetically equal it will return 0.
In your code,
str="Solo"; and str1="Learn";
When comparing this two strings,
strcmp(str,str1);
The 'S' of str is alphabetically greater than 'L' of str1 therefore it will return 1.