---
url: >-
  /statelake/scripting-reference/functions-and-procedures/string-functions/comparetext.md
---

# CompareText

**CompareText** compares the given strings **S1** and **S2**, and returns zero (0) if they match.

**CompareText** is not sensitive to case in its comparison - **A** is taken as the same as **a**.

The function will return **1** if -

* **S1** is less than **S2** (alphabetically)
* **S1** is greater than **S2** (alphabetically).

**Declaration**: Function CompareText( const S1, S2 : string) : Integer

Here is an example.

```pascal
procedure OnMapEvent(var Value:Variant);
begin
 //The test would return true
 If CompareText('abc','ABC')= 0 then
    LogInfo('The strings match each other.')
 else
    LogInfo('The strings do not match each other.  Try again!');

 //The test would return false
 If CompareText('Apples','Apple')= 0 then
    LogInfo('The strings match each other.')
 else
    LogInfo('The strings do not match each other.  Try again!');

 //The test would return false
 If CompareText('apples','oranges')= 0 then
    LogInfo('The strings match each other.')
 else
    LogInfo('The strings do not match each other.  Try again!');

end;
```