Specifications

Chapter 6. Expressions and Operators
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■ Comparison of Character Strings
The string operators compare two character strings according to character codes
assigned to individual characters.
In the example below, the expression
a1$<b1$ returns the value of true so as to out-
put -1.
a1$="ABC001"
b1$="ABC002"
PRINT a1$<b1$
-1