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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