Metrohm tiamo 1.1 Manual - Manual (Page 68)

40 General program functions
Operand1 Operand2 Result Example Remarks
Text Number Number "Metrohm" = 1.2 --> 0 The same rules apply here as
for the previous operation.
Number Time Number 2.0 = Time(1999;10;07) --> 0 Before the comparative opera-
tion the Date/Time is converted
to Number . When the operation
is carried out the exact value
obtained after this conversion
is always used, even when only
a maximum of 5 decimal
places can be shown (for de-
tails please refer to Type con-
version "TimeToNumber",
Note).
Time Number Number Time(1999;10;7) = 2.0 --> 0 The same rules apply here as
for the previous operation.
Text Time Number "Metrohm" = Time(1999;10;07)
--> 0 Before the operation an oper-
and of type
Date/Time is con-
verted to Text (i.e.: "1999-10-07
00:00:00 UTC+2" ), then the
texts are compared according
to the ASCII table.
Time Text Number Time(1999;10;07) = "Metrohm"
--> 0 The same rules apply here as
for the previous operation.
Larger than
Syntax
Operand1 > Operand2
The operands can either be entered directly or as a Variable and can be
of the type
Text , Number or Date/Time . The result type is always a number ( 1
= true, 0 = false).
Examples
Operand1 Operand2 Result Example Remarks
Operands of the same type:
Number Number Number
5 > 4 --> 1
4 > 5 --> 0 -
Text Text Number "Metrohm" > "AG" --> 1
"Aarau" > "Zug" --> 0
In a comparison between two
texts the ASCII values (see
ASCII table) of the character
strings are compared. Note:
upper and lower case letters
have different values!
Time Time Number Time(1998;04;06) >
Time(1964;02;03) --> 1 Time() : see function Time(Date)