Is string::compare reliable to determine alphabetical order?

Question

Simply put, if the input is always in the same case (here, lower case), and if the characters are always ASCII, can one use string::compare to determine reliably the alphabetica

Answer 1

Yes, as long as all of the characters in both strings are of the same case, and as long as both strings consist only of letters, this will work.

compare is a member function, though, so you would call it like so:

stringA.compare(stringB);