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Odd String Comparison Problem
Hi all,
I was writing some test code to confirm that records brought back from a sorted SOQL query were in the correct order when I found this odd problem.
string a = 'A';
string b = ' '; // That's a space character
if (b < a)
system.debug('B first');
else
system.debug('A first');
This prints out B first as I would expect it to
string c = 'ACN';
string d = 'A N'; //That's A,Space,N
if (c < d)
system.debug('C first');
else
system.debug('D first');
This prints out C first even though I would expect it to say that 'A N' comes before 'ACN'.
I'm not using an odd locale and I can't find any documentation to say what is the expected behaviour. Am I mad or missing something really obvious.
Thanks for your help,
Liam
BTW I realise I should be using String.CompareTo but it just puzzles me
Liam