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# AnsiCompareText

Compare 2 ansistrings, case insensitive, ignoring accents characters.

## Declaration

Source position: sysstrh.inc line 85

`function AnsiCompareText(`
`const S1: string;`
`const S2: string`
`):Integer;`

## Description

AnsiCompareText compares two strings and returns the following result:

<0
  if S1<S2.
0
  if S1=S2.
>0
  if S1>S2.

the comparision takes into account Ansi characters, i.e. it takes care of strange accented characters. Contrary to AnsiCompareStr, the comparision is case insensitive.

Remark: | A widestring manager must be installed in order for this function to work correctly with various character sets.

## Errors

None.

## See also

AdjustLineBreaks |  | Convert possible line-endings to the currently valid line ending.
AnsiCompareText |  | Compare 2 ansistrings, case insensitive, ignoring accents characters.

## Example

    Program Example49;

    { This program demonstrates the AnsiCompareText function }
    {$H+}

    Uses sysutils;

    Procedure TestIt (S1,S2 : String);

    Var R : Longint;

    begin
      R:=AnsiCompareText(S1,S2);
      Write ('"',S1,'" is ');
      If R<0 then
        write ('less than ')
      else If R=0 then
        Write ('equal to ')
      else
        Write ('larger than ');
      Writeln ('"',S2,'"');
    end;

    Begin
      Testit('One string','One smaller string');
      Testit('One string','one string');
      Testit('One string','One string');
      Testit('One string','One tall string');
    End.

Documentation generated on: Feb 26 2014