Comparing 2 Strings Using >

[Akino877]

Hello,

I am new to Perl. And I am trying the following code:

if ( "ape" > "aaxxxx" ) {
   print "Greater\n";
}
else {
   print "Not greater\n";
}

And it printed "Not greater". I wonder if someone could please tell me why?

Thank you so much for your help - Akino

[RonB]

The > operator does a numerical comparison. You need to use one of the string comparison operators such as eq or ne.