Comparison operators allow you to determine the relationship between
two values. The following comparison operators are allowed:
- This:
- Means this:
- GT or >
- Greater than
- LT or <
- Less than
- NG or ¬>
- Not greater than
- NL or ¬<
- Not less than
- EQ or =
- Equal
- NE or ¬=
- Not equal
- GE or >=
- Greater than or equal
- LE or <=
- Less than or equal
Alphabetic characters are sorted before digits (A-Z come before
0-9). The following comparison is true for all high-level qualifiers
alphanumerically greater than “M”:
IF &HLQ > 'M' THEN . . .
For FILTLIST or mask comparisons, only EQ and NE are valid. See FILTLIST statement for details.