Futurebasic/Language/Reference/fbcomparecontainers

FBCompareContainers function FBCompareContainers Function ✔ Appearance ✔ Standard ✔ Console Syntax result& = FN FBCOMPARECONTAINERS(a$$,b$$) Revised June 12, 2000 (Release 3) Description This function returns a result that represents how container a$$ compares to container b$$. If the result& is zero, the containers are identical. A negative result (-n&) provides the character position at which container a$$ was found to be less than container b$$. A positive result give the character position where container a$$ became greater than container b$$. Result Indicates Negative container a$$ < container b$$ Zero container a$$ = container b$$ Positive container a$$ > container b$$ Note: With this function, containers are evaluated by ASCII (not numeric) values.