Spaceship operator(<=>) also know as Combined Comparison Operator. Basically this operator will offer combined comparison means, it will do greater-than, less-than and equal comparisons between two operands.Below are the return values based on the result.
1. Return 0 if operands on both side are equal.
2. Return 1 if operand on the left is greater.
3. Return -1 if the operand on the right is greater.
It can be used on any two operands like strings,integers,objects, float, Array..etc.
Here are some examples:
// Integers echo 1 <=> 1; // 0 echo 1 <=> 2; // -1 echo 2 <=> 1; // 1 // Floats echo 1.5 <=> 1.5; // 0 echo 1.5 <=> 2.5; // -1 echo 2.5 <=> 1.5; // 1 // Strings echo "a" <=> "a"; // 0 echo "a" <=> "b"; // -1 echo "b" <=> "a"; // 1 echo "a" <=> "aa"; // -1 echo "zz" <=> "aa"; // 1 // Arrays echo [] <=> []; // 0 echo [1, 2, 3] <=> [1, 2, 3]; // 0 echo [1, 2, 3] <=> []; // 1 echo [1, 2, 3] <=> [1, 2, 1]; // 1 echo [1, 2, 3] <=> [1, 2, 4]; // -1 // Objects $a = (object) ["a" => "b"]; $b = (object) ["a" => "b"]; echo $a <=> $b; // 0 $a = (object) ["a" => "b"]; $b = (object) ["a" => "c"]; echo $a <=> $b; // -1 $a = (object) ["a" => "c"]; $b = (object) ["a" => "b"]; echo $a <=> $b; // 1 // only values are compared $a = (object) ["a" => "b"]; $b = (object) ["b" => "b"]; echo $a <=> $b; // 0
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