From 867b0d57d6ab2d026114c488e3ddfb9743ac9bc4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hugo Locurcio Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2020 19:06:22 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Improve the String comparison methods' documentation This closes https://github.com/godotengine/godot-docs/issues/4096. (cherry picked from commit a2271ba3bdaa5fab0f6518a2445b839d36e283eb) --- doc/classes/String.xml | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/classes/String.xml b/doc/classes/String.xml index 32e6a0cfda5..7919f7f9da7 100644 --- a/doc/classes/String.xml +++ b/doc/classes/String.xml @@ -270,7 +270,10 @@ - Performs a case-sensitive comparison to another string. Returns [code]-1[/code] if less than, [code]+1[/code] if greater than, or [code]0[/code] if equal. + Performs a case-sensitive comparison to another string. Returns [code]-1[/code] if less than, [code]1[/code] if greater than, or [code]0[/code] if equal. "less than" or "greater than" are determined by the [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unicode_characters]Unicode code points[/code] of each string, which roughly matches the alphabetical order. + [b]Behavior with different string lengths:[/b] Returns [code]1[/code] if the "base" string is longer than the [code]to[/code] string or [code]-1[/code] if the "base" string is shorter than the [code]to[/code] string. Keep in mind this length is determined by the number of Unicode codepoints, [i]not[/i] the actual visible characters. + [b]Behavior with empty strings:[/b] Returns [code]-1[/code] if the "base" string is empty, [code]1[/code] if the [code]to[/code] string is empty or [code]0[/code] if both strings are empty. + To get a boolean result from a string comparison, use the [code]==[/code] operator instead. See also [method nocasecmp_to]. @@ -623,7 +626,10 @@ - Performs a case-insensitive comparison to another string. Returns [code]-1[/code] if less than, [code]+1[/code] if greater than, or [code]0[/code] if equal. + Performs a case-insensitive comparison to another string. Returns [code]-1[/code] if less than, [code]1[/code] if greater than, or [code]0[/code] if equal. "less than" or "greater than" are determined by the [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unicode_characters]Unicode code points[/code] of each string, which roughly matches the alphabetical order. Internally, lowercase characters will be converted to uppercase during the comparison. + [b]Behavior with different string lengths:[/b] Returns [code]1[/code] if the "base" string is longer than the [code]to[/code] string or [code]-1[/code] if the "base" string is shorter than the [code]to[/code] string. Keep in mind this length is determined by the number of Unicode codepoints, [i]not[/i] the actual visible characters. + [b]Behavior with empty strings:[/b] Returns [code]-1[/code] if the "base" string is empty, [code]1[/code] if the [code]to[/code] string is empty or [code]0[/code] if both strings are empty. + To get a boolean result from a string comparison, use the [code]==[/code] operator instead. See also [method casecmp_to].