STRCMP STRCMP String Compare Function Usage Compares two strings for equality. The general syntax for its use is p = strcmp(x,y) where x and y are two strings. Returns true if x and y are the same size, and are equal (as strings). Otherwise, it returns false. In the second form, strcmp can be applied to a cell array of strings. The syntax for this form is p = strcmp(cellstra,cellstrb) where cellstra and cellstrb are cell arrays of a strings to compare. Also, you can also supply a character matrix as an argument to strcmp, in which case it will be converted via cellstr (so that trailing spaces are removed), before being compared.