On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 03:51:25PM +0300, Alexei Alexandrov wrote: > Thanks. One correction: 'uses "=", "!=", "<" etc for string > comparisons' should be 'uses "==", "!=", "<" etc for string > comparisons'
Are you sure? man test shows: s1 = s2 True if the strings s1 and s2 are identical. s1 != s2 True if the strings s1 and s2 are not identical. s1 < s2 True if string s1 comes before s2 based on the ASCII value of their characters. s1 > s2 True if string s1 comes after s2 based on the ASCII value of their characters. Nicholas Clark