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    <title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Comparison Operators</title>
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  <bookmark_value>comparison operators;%PRODUCTNAME Basic</bookmark_value>
  <bookmark_value>Operators;comparison</bookmark_value>
  <bookmark_value>Operators;equal sign (=)</bookmark_value>
  <bookmark_value>Operators;greater than (&gt;)</bookmark_value>
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<paragraph id="par_id3156042" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">Comparison operators compare two expressions. The result is returned as a boolean expression that determines if the comparison is <literal>True</literal> (-1) or <literal>False</literal> (0).</paragraph>
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  <paragraph id="par_id3149177" role="bascode" localize="false">result = expression1 { = | &lt; | &gt; | &lt;= | &gt;= } expression2</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_id3147573" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US"> <emph>result</emph>: Boolean that specifies the result of the comparison (<literal>True</literal>, or <literal>False</literal>)</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3148686" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US"> <emph>expression1, expression2</emph>: Any numeric values or strings that you want to compare.</paragraph>

<paragraph id="hd_id3147531" role="heading" level="2" xml-lang="en-US">Comparison operators</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3147265" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">= : Equal to</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3154924" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">&lt; : Less than</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3146795" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">&gt; : Greater than</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3150541" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">&lt;= : Less than or equal to</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3150400" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">&gt;= : Greater than or equal to</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3148797" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">&lt;&gt; : Not equal to</paragraph>

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<paragraph id="par_idm1341075248" role="bascode" localize="false">Sub ExampleUnequal</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_idm1341074016" role="bascode" localize="false">Dim sFile As String</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3154909" role="bascode" xml-lang="en-US">Dim sRoot As String ' Root directory for file in and output</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_idm1341071024" role="bascode" localize="false">    sRoot = "c:\"</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_idm1341069792" role="bascode" localize="false">    sFile = Dir$( sRoot ,22)</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_idm1341068544" role="bascode" localize="false">    If sFile &lt;&gt; "" Then</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_idm1341066064" role="bascode" localize="false">            MsgBox sFile</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_idm1341064816" role="bascode" localize="false">            sFile = Dir$</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_idm1341063568" role="bascode" localize="false">        Loop Until sFile = ""</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_idm1341062320" role="bascode" localize="false">    End If</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_idm1341061088" role="bascode" localize="false">End Sub</paragraph>
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