LGE

Elemental Intrinsic Function (Generic): Determines if a string is lexically greater than or equal to another string, based on the ASCII collating sequence, even if the processor's default collating sequence is different. In Intel® Fortran, LGE is equivalent to the (.GE.) operator.

result = LGE (string_a,string_b)

string_a	(Input) Must be of type character.
string_b	(Input) Must be of type character.

Results

The result type is default logical. If the strings are of unequal length, the comparison is made as if the shorter string were extended on the right with blanks, to the length of the longer string.

The result is true if the strings are equal, both strings are of zero length, or if string_a follows string_b in the ASCII collating sequence; otherwise, the result is false.

Specific Name	Argument Type	Result Type
LGE ^1,2	CHARACTER	LOGICAL(4)
¹ This specific function cannot be passed as an actual argument. ² The setting of compiler options specifying integer size can affect this function.

Specific Name

Argument Type

Result Type

LGE ^1,2

CHARACTER

LOGICAL(4)

¹ This specific function cannot be passed as an actual argument.

² The setting of compiler options specifying integer size can affect this function.

Example

LGE ( 'ONE', 'SIX' ) has the value false.

LGE ( 'TWO', 'THREE' ) has the value true.

The following shows another example:

LOGICAL L
L = LGE('ABC','ABD')       ! returns .FALSE.
L = LGE ('AB', 'AAAAAAAB') ! returns .TRUE.

LGE

Results

Example

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