Course of Raku / Essentials / Conditional checks

Comparing strings

String comparison uses its own set of operators:

`eq`	Equal
`ne`	Not equal
`gt`	Greater than
`ge`	Greater than or equal
`lt`	Less than
`le`	Less than or equal

Examples

Examine a few examples of comparing two strings:

say 'alpha' lt 'beta'; # True
say 'word' ne 'Word';  # True
say 'xyz' gt 'xvw';    # True

Practice

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