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If Compare = 1, the string comparison is case-sensitive. If Compare = 0, no distinction is made between uppercase and lowercase letters.</paragraph> 60<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3154940" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="U" oldref="13">Return value</paragraph> 61<list type="unordered"> 62<listitem> 63<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3150358" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="27">If Text1 < Text2 the function returns -1</paragraph> 64</listitem> 65<listitem> 66<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3151043" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="28">If Text1 = Text2 the function returns 0</paragraph> 67</listitem> 68<listitem> 69<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3158410" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="29">If Text1 > Text2 the function returns 1</paragraph> 70</listitem> 71</list> 72<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#errorcode"/> 73<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#err5"/> 74<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3153968" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="18">Example:</paragraph> 75<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3151381" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="19">Sub ExampleStrComp</paragraph> 76<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154685" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="20">Dim iVar As Single</paragraph> 77<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148453" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="21">Dim sVar As String</paragraph> 78<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153369" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="22">iVar = 123.123</paragraph> 79<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145786" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="23">sVar = Str$(iVar)</paragraph> 80<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3146975" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="24">Msgbox strcomp(sVar , Str$(iVar),1)</paragraph> 81<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150487" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="25">end sub</paragraph> 82</body> 83</helpdocument> 84