1// Copyright 2015 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
2// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
3// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
4
5package strings
6
7import "internal/bytealg"
8
9// Compare returns an integer comparing two strings lexicographically.
10// The result will be 0 if a == b, -1 if a < b, and +1 if a > b.
11//
12// Use Compare when you need to perform a three-way comparison (with
13// [slices.SortFunc], for example). It is usually clearer and always faster
14// to use the built-in string comparison operators ==, <, >, and so on.
15func Compare(a, b string) int {
16	return bytealg.CompareString(a, b)
17}
18