Futurebasic/Language/Reference/fbcomparecontainers

= FBCompareContainers function =

Function
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Revised
June 12, 2000 (Release 3)

Description
This function returns a result that represents how container  compares to container. If the  is zero, the containers are identical. A negative result (-n&amp;) provides the character position at which container  was found to be less than container. A positive result give the character position where container  became greater than container.

&lt; container

Zero

container  = container

Positive

container  &gt; container

Note: With this function, containers are evaluated by ASCII (not numeric) values.