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{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Article","dateCreated":"2014-11-13T14:15:35+02:00","datePublished":"2014-11-13T14:15:35+02:00","dateModified":"2018-06-20T17:05:52+03:00","headline":"JavaScript String Compare example","name":"JavaScript String Compare example","keywords":[],"url":"https:\/\/www.webcodegeeks.com\/javascript\/javascript-string-compare-example\/","description":"A very common operation for most developers is String Compare, be the language they use JavaScript, C\/C++, Java, whatever. To be honest, the programming language doesn't even matter. At some point you","copyrightYear":"2014","articleSection":"JavaScript","articleBody":"A very common operation for most developers is String Compare, be the language they use JavaScript, C\/C++, Java, whatever. To be honest, the programming language doesn't even matter. At some point you will have to compare those strings. In this example we will learn how to do that using JavaScript.\r\n\r\nWe will use:\r\n\r\n \tJavaScript\r\n\r\n\r\nSimple Comparison\r\nWe will start by having you give a look at the following example:\r\n\r\n[js]\r\nvar s = 'string1';\r\n\r\nif(s == 'string1') {\r\n    alert(true);\r\n} else {\r\n    alert(false);\r\n}\r\n[\/js]\r\n\r\nYou will notice that the code puts an alert that says true on the screen. Pretty logical, as the strings are obviously equal.But...\r\nComparing strings with numbers?!\r\nHave a look at the following code snippet:\r\n\r\n[js]\r\nvar s = '16';\r\n\r\nif(s == 16) {\r\n    alert(true);\r\n} else {\r\n    alert(false);\r\n}\r\n[\/js]\r\n\r\nIt shows true. Confused much? Are you asking yourself why did it turn out true when a string can't possibly be equal to a number? I will tell you why after you look at this improved version of the last code:\r\n\r\n[js]\r\nvar s = '16';\r\n\r\nif(s === 16) {\r\n    alert(true);\r\n} else {\r\n    alert(false);\r\n}\r\n[\/js]\r\n\r\nDid you notice the difference? It's in the operator: We were using == and now we're using ===. While the first one only checks if the variables are equal, the second one also considers the variable types, which should be the same too. That's why the improved example will show you the result false. If it still seems strange why would JavaScript consider 123 as equal to '123' then let me tell you JavaScript comparison operator use .toString() operators for types that are not strings.\r\nCase insensitive string comparison\r\nSometimes you want to compare strings that only differ by one being sentence case and the other lowercase or uppercase. But if you are only interested in the content and not the formatting, the comparison way we showed you in the previous paragraphs is not very convenient.\r\n\r\nOne way would be to convert both strings to uppercase and then compare, which would make the code go like this:\r\n\r\n[js]\r\nvar str1 = "Sentence Case";\r\nvar str2 = "sentence case";\r\nvar res1 = str1.toUpperCase();\r\nvar res2 = str2.toUpperCase();\r\n\r\nif(res1 == res2) {\r\n    alert(true);\r\n} else {\r\n    alert(false);\r\n[\/js]\r\n\r\nRemember that casing is a locale specific operation. Depending on the scenario you may want to take that in to account. For example, if you are comparing names of two people you may want to consider locale but if you are comparing machine generated values such as UUID then you might not.\r\n\r\nIt is preferred to normalize your strings to uppercase, though you can even normalize them to lowercase. 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