greater-than

Type

operator

Summary

Compares two values and returns true if the first value is greater than the second value, false otherwise.

Syntax

<value1> &gt; value2

Description

Use the > (greater than) operator to compare two numbers or to compare the alphabetical order of two strings.

When comparing strings, the operator compares the two values character by character, using the ASCII value of each character. For example, "a" comes before "z" in the ASCII character set, so "z" > "a" and "az" > "ab".

If the strings are of different lengths, so that the trailing characters in one string are compared to missing characters in the other, the missing characters are considered to have lower value than any character. For example, "DEF" > "DE". If the two values are equal, value1 > value2 evaluates to false.

If the caseSensitive property is true, the comparison between two strings treats uppercase letters as coming before lowercase letters, so "a" > "A". If the caseSensitive property is false, the comparison is not case-sensitive, so "a" is considered equivalent to "A".

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
value1		The operands value1 and value2 can be numbers, literal strings of characters (delimited with double quotes), or any sources of value.

Examples

1 > 0 -- evaluates to true

2 > -15 -- evaluates to true

repeat while counter > 0

Related

property: caseSensitive

function: max, value

glossary: property, ASCII, value, return, operator, string, character set, case-sensitive

keyword: string, character, characters

operator: greater-than-or-equals, less-than-or-greater-than, less than

Compatibility and Support

Introduced

LiveCode 1.0

OS

mac

windows

linux

ios

android

Platforms

desktop

server

mobile