I think you're getting what's called a "lexical comparison" which is good jargon for alphabetical order. If this was in an index of a book, you'd expect pretty much any letter to appear after an entry that begins with a number.
I think CF's being nice and clever and realising that it's comparing unlike types, and converting the number to a string. -----Original Message----- From: Tim Blair [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 April 2004 18:14 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] String values and GTE etc > it may be doing an ASCII char value comparison. Snot that: <cfoutput>#teststr GT 9999999999#</cfoutput> <!--- "YES" ---> :o\ -- ------------------------------------------------------- <CF_CodingContest mode="judging" newentries="false"> Maze Solver - http://tech.badpen.com/cfcontest/ ------------------------------------------------------- RAWNET LTD - Internet, New Media and ebusiness Gurus. WE'VE MOVED - for our new address, please visit our website at http://www.rawnet.com/ or call us any time on 0800 294 24 24. ------------------------------------------------------- This message may contain information which is legally privileged and/or confidential. 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Such notification notwithstanding, any comments, opinions, information or conclusions expressed in this message are those of the originator, not of rawnet limited, unless otherwise explicitly and independently indicated by an authorised representative of rawnet limited. ------------------------------------------------------- > -----Original Message----- > From: Snake Hollywood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 05 April 2004 18:06 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] String values and GTE etc > > it may be doing an ASCII char value comparison. > I.E B is GT A beacause of it's position in the charcaterset > and it's value. > > Not that I actually bothered testing this theory :-) > > Russ > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Tim Blair [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: 05 April 2004 15:55 > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [ cf-dev ] String values and GTE etc > > > > > > > > Afternoon, > > > > OK, more numeric weirdness. I had a bug (now fixed) that > was caused > > by a string value being incorrectly used as numeric. > > Basically, I was supposed to be checking that the length of > a string > > was greater than > > (say) 5 characters: > > > > #len(myString) GT 5# > > > > However, I'd misplaced the closing bracket so I had the following: > > > > #len(myString GT 5)# > > > > Now I would have thought that I would have got an error trying to > > compare a non-numeric value (e.g. if myString = > > "hvuaoeg") to a numeric one, but noooo... Try the following: > > > > <cfset teststr = "adgbyeai"> > > <cfoutput>#val(teststr)#</cfoutput><br> <!--- "0" ---> > > <cfoutput>#teststr LT 5#</cfoutput><br> <!--- "NO" ---> > > <cfoutput>#teststr GT 5#</cfoutput> <!--- "YES" ---> > > > > So what's going on here then? > > > > Tim. > > > > -- > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > <CF_CodingContest mode="judging" newentries="false"> Maze Solver - > > http://tech.badpen.com/cfcontest/ > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > RAWNET LTD - Internet, New Media and ebusiness Gurus. > > WE'VE MOVED - for our new address, please visit our website at > > http://www.rawnet.com/ or call us any time on 0800 294 24 24. > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This message may contain information which is legally privileged > > and/or confidential. 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