Metrohm tiamo 1.1 Manual - Manual (Page 70)

42 General program functions
Operand1 Operand2 Result Example Remarks
Operands of different types:
Number Text
Number 1.2 >= "1.2" --> 1
1.2 >= "Metrohm" --> 0 Before the comparative opera-
tion the
Number is converted to
Text and then the texts are
compared according to the
ASCII table.
Text Number Number "Metrohm" >= 1.2 --> 1 The same rules apply here as
for the previous operation.
Number Time Number 2.0 >= Time(1999;10;07) --> 0 Before the comparison the
Date/Time is converted to a
Number (see Type conversion
"TimeToNumber").
Time Number Number Time(1999;10;07) >= 2.0 --> 1 The same rules apply here as
for the previous operation.
Text Time Number "Metrohm" >=
Time(1999;10;07) --> 1 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" ) and then the
texts are compared according
to the ASCII table.
Time Text Number Time(1999;10;7) >= "Metrohm"
--> 0 The same rules apply here as
for the previous operation.
Smaller 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 --> 0
4 < 5 --> 1
-
Text Text Number "Metrohm" < "AG" --> 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) --> 0 Time() : see function Time(Date)
Operands of different types:
Number Text
Number 1.2 < "Metrohm" --> 1
1.2 < "1" --> 0 Before the comparative opera-
tion the
Number is converted to
Text and then the texts are
compared according to the