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Ram · Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 3:03 pm Post subject: Perl - Boolean string expressions

Hi,

I'm in the middle of frying my brian and need some assistance.

Can someone explain to me why:

$A = "xyz";
$B = "stu";

print $A gt $B;

is true?

I can't find any rhyme or reason to what the value's are or how it make's the comparison.

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Ram · Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 5:48 pm Post subject:

C, I'd told U it was fried Surprised

MartyBartfast · Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 9:33 pm Post subject:

Back on topic it sounds right to me, xyz is 'greater than' stu, in as much as it would come second if they're sorted alphabetically.
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Ram · Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 1:50 pm Post subject:

Brian still fired, thought I'd replied to this.

Yes Martin that's what I thought but the damned CBT course had it wrong. Very Happy

Cheers
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Ram · Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 3:26 pm Post subject: