The Compare Two Strings for Equality routine compares two strings to see if they have the same length and contents. Uppercase and lowercase characters are not considered equal. Format STR$COMPARE_EQL first-source-string ,second-source-string
1 – Returns
OpenVMS usage:longword_unsigned type: longword (unsigned) access: write only mechanism: by value The values returned by STR$COMPARE and the conditions to which they translate are as follows: Returned Value Condition 0 The length and the contents of first-source-string are equal to the length and contents of second- source-string. 1 Either the length of first-source-string is not equal to the length of second-source-string, or the contents of first-source-string are not equal to the contents of second-source-string, or both.
2 – Arguments
first-source-string OpenVMS usage:char_string type: character string access: read only mechanism: by descriptor First source string. The first-source-string argument is the address of a descriptor pointing to the first source string. second-source-string OpenVMS usage:char_string type: character string access: read only mechanism: by descriptor Second source string. The second-source-string argument is the address of a descriptor pointing to the second source string.