Greater than
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In ASCII, the character code decimal 62
(or hexadecimal 3E
) is defined to be >
(greater-than sign).
comparison operator
true greater than
The greater than symbol >
is used to compare whether the value on the left side of the symbol, exceeds that of the value to the right side of the symbol.
The expression results in a boolean
value.
1program comparisonDemo(input, output, stderr);
2
3type
4 size = (tiny, small, medium, large, huge);
5
6var
7 n, m: longint;
8 c, d: char;
9
10begin
11 // of course, integers can be compared
12 n := 2;
13 m := -2;
14
15 if n > m then
16 begin
17 writeLn(n, ' > ', m);
18 end;
19
20 // also enumerative types can be ordered
21 if huge > medium then
22 begin
23 writeLn('huge is greater than medium');
24 end;
25
26 // but the constants true and false are also comparable
27 if true > false then
28 begin
29 writeLn('true is greater than false');
30 end;
31
32 // characters stay in a relation to each other, too
33 // (result depends on the used character set)
34 c := 'a';
35 d := 'Z';
36
37 if c > d then
38 begin
39 writeLn(c, ' > ', d);
40 end;
41end.
All ordinal types can be compared to values of the same type. Integers can be compared to any integer.
1program comparisonSignedDemo(input, output, stderr);
2
3var
4 n: int64;
5 m: qword;
6
7begin
8 n := -1; // n stored as %111...111
9 m := 2; // m stored as %000...010
10
11 // signed comparison
12 if n > m then
13 begin
14 writeLn(n, ' > ', m);
15 end;
16
17 // "unsigned" comparison
18 if qword(n) > m then
19 begin
20 writeLn('qword(', n, ') > ', m);
21 end;
22end.
greater than or equal to
If the greater than symbol is followed by an equal sign >=
, the comparison also results in true
if both operands are equal to each other.
bit shift operator
Two consecutive greater-than signs >>
act as the shr
operator.
template list
In generic type definitions the template list is delimited by a closing >
.
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