General question: Absolutely. The order is that of -char()-.
Specific question: "N05 " > "N05". You have trailing spaces. They are
characters too.
Nick
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Steve
Can the greater than (>) and less than (<) operators be applied to
strings?
If the answer is 'yes' (as I thought), why is "N05" included in the
output
for the following command?
. tab code admimeth if (admimeth==31 | admimeth==32) & (code>"N05" &
code<"N13")
| admimeth
code | 31 32 | Total
-----------+----------------------+----------
N05 | 103 163 | 266
N06 | 23,858 132 | 23,990
N07 | 364,687 2,653 | 367,340
N08 | 8,079 18 | 8,097
N09 | 70,953 132 | 71,085
N10 | 24,606 88 | 24,694
N11 | 123,635 256 | 123,891
N12 | 546,148 21,998 | 568,146
-----------+----------------------+----------
Total | 1,162,069 25,440 | 1,187,509
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