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General program functions
Operand1 Operand2 Result
Example
Remarks
Number Time
Number
2.0 <= Time(1999;10;07) --> 1
Before the comparison the
Date/Time
is converted to a
Number
(see Type conversion
"TimeToNumber").
Time Number
Number
Time(1999;10;07) <= 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"
) and then the
texts are compared according
to the ASCII table.
Time Text Number
Time(1999;10;7) <= "Metrohm"
--> 1
The same rules apply here as
for the previous operation.
Unequal
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
5 <> 5 --> 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!
Text Text Number
"Metrohm" <> "AG" --> 1
dfg
Time Time Number
Time(1998;04;06) <>
Time(1964;02;03) --> 1
Time()
: see function Time(Date)
Operands of different types:
Number Text
Number
1.2 <> "1.2" --> 0
1.2 <> "Metrohm" --> 1
Before the comparative operation
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) --> 1
Before the comparison the
Date/Time
is converted to a
Num-
ber
(see Type conversion "Time-
ToNumber").
Time Number
Number
Time(1999;10;07) <> 2.5 --> 1
The same rules apply here as for