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NAME

lge(3f) - [FORTRAN:INTRINSIC:CHARACTER] Lexical greater than or equal

SYNTAX

result = lge(string_a, string_b)

DESCRIPTION

Determines whether one string is lexically greater than or equal to another string, where the two strings are interpreted as containing ASCII character codes. If the String A and String B are not the same length, the shorter is compared as if spaces were appended to it to form a value that has the same length as the longer.

In general, the lexical comparison intrinsics LGE, LGT, LLE, and LLT differ from the corresponding intrinsic operators .ge., .gt., .le., and .lt., in that the latter use the processor’s character ordering (which is not ASCII on some targets), whereas the former always use the ASCII ordering.

ARGUMENTS

string_a
  Shall be of default CHARACTER type.
string_b
  Shall be of default CHARACTER type.

RETURN VALUE

Returns .true. if string_a >= string_b, and .false. otherwise, based on the ASCII ordering.

STANDARD

[[FORTRAN 77]] and later

CLASS

[[Elemental procedure|Elemental function]]

SEE ALSO

[[lgt(3), [[lle(3), [[llt(3)

Functions that perform operations on character strings, return lengths of arguments, and search for certain arguments:
Elemental:
  adjustl(3), adjustr(3), index(3), len_trim(3), scan(3), verify(3)
Nonelemental:
  repeat(3), trim(3)


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