Thanks, I think I have it working!


On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Alain Forget <afor...@cmu.edu> wrote:

> <> is the MySQL (and SQL in general?) "not equal to", so maybe that's
> where it came from?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pally Sandher [mailto:pally.sand...@iesve.com]
> Sent: April 18, 2013 06:42
> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Why in Preprocessor the "Not Equal To" is "!="
> while in conditional string is "<>".
>
> Because the WiX team wrote the WiX pre-processor syntax & kept it to
> regularly accepted coding standards (hence != for 'not equal to' as per
> every other modern programming language) while the Conditional Statement
> syntax was written by the Windows Installer team back in the mists of time?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: uni [mailto:unigauld...@gmail.com]
> Sent: 18 April 2013 06:08
> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [WiX-users] Why in Preprocessor the "Not Equal To" is "!=" while
> in conditional string is "<>".
>
> It is not very intuitive.
> I first write:
> <?if $(var.CurrentVersion)<>$(var.MinimumVersion)?>
> and it says:
> "error CNDL0162: An illegal number was found in the expression
> '$(var.CurrentVersion)<>$(var.MinimumVersion)'."
>
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