String comparison issue 1

[Jaheel22]

In VB6, in immediate window of Visual Studo 6.0, i type this

strA = "1200"
strB = "800"
? strA > strB
False

Why it's returng false ?

Thanks much

 

[gmmastros]

Because you are comparing them as strings. During string comparisons, the first characters are compared, then the second and so forth.

Try this...

strA = "1200"
strB = " 800"
? strA > strB

or

strA = "1200"
strB = "0800"
? strA > strB

Done this way, you will get the result you expect.

-George

"the screen with the little boxes in the window." - Moron

 

[johnwm]

These are strings and string comparisons are done alphabetically from the first character of the string. If you want to compare values convert to number using VAL before comparing

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[gmmastros]

To further illustrate....

strA = "Apple"
strB = "Banana"
? strA > strB

What would you expect the result to be?

-George

"the screen with the little boxes in the window." - Moron

 

[BobRodes]

One more elaboration: what you are doing is a so-called "ASCII sort" comparison. Here's an ASCII table:

http://www.asciitable.com/

Strings are sorted in the order that the characters occur in this table.

Bob

 

[SBerthold]

Therefore, You might want to try this:

strA = "1200"
strB = "800"

? CDec(strA) > CDec(strB)