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Description

The < operator takes two operands and compares them. If the operands are numeric then the numeric type conversion rules are applied before the comparision is done. If the operands are of char type or of string type then the char/string type conversion rules are applied before the comparision is done. The result of this operation is of boolean type and is true if the left operand is less than the right operand, and false otherwise.

Example

For example

   23 <   23    results in false
  -23 <  -23    results in false
   23 < 23.0    results in false
 23.0 <   23    results in false
    2 <    3    results in true
    2 <   -3    results in false
   -2 <   -3    results in false
    3 <    2    results in false
   -3 <    2    results in true
   -3 <   -2    results in true

and

  'abc' < 'abc'  results in false
  'abc' < 'abcd' results in true
  'abc' < 'ab'   results in false
  'abc' < 'abd'  results in true
  'abc' < 'aac'  results in false
  'abc' < 'b'    results in true