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.
program comparisonDemo(input, output, stderr);
type
size = (tiny, small, medium, large, huge);
var
n, m: longint;
c, d: char;
begin
// of course, integers can be compared
n := 2;
m := -2;
if n > m then
begin
writeLn(n, ' > ', m);
end;
// also enumerative types can be ordered
if huge > medium then
begin
writeLn('huge is greater than medium');
end;
// but the constants true and false are also comparable
if true > false then
begin
writeLn('true is greater than false');
end;
// characters stay in a relation to each other, too
// (result depends on the used character set)
c := 'a';
d := 'Z';
if c > d then
begin
writeLn(c, ' > ', d);
end;
end.All ordinal types can be compared to values of the same type. Integers can be compared to any integer.
program comparisonSignedDemo(input, output, stderr);
var
n: int64;
m: qword;
begin
n := -1; // n stored as %111...111
m := 2; // m stored as %000...010
// signed comparison
if n > m then
begin
writeLn(n, ' > ', m);
end;
// "unsigned" comparison
if qword(n) > m then
begin
writeLn('qword(', n, ') > ', m);
end;
end.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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