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From: zben@umd5.umd.edu (Ben Cranston)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: HyperCard Bug?
Summary: I think this is normal behaviour
Message-ID: <5593@umd5.umd.edu>
Date: 9 Nov 89 19:40:31 GMT
References: <5071@ncar.ucar.edu>
Reply-To: zben@umd5.umd.edu (Ben Cranston)
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In article <5071@ncar.ucar.edu> hpoppe@NCAR.UCAR.EDU (Herb Poppe) writes:

>  theChar >= "A" and theChar <= "Z"
> is true for values of theChar from "a" through "y" and "A" though "Z"
> (inclusive); it is false for the value "z".
>  theChar >= "a" and theChar <= "z"
> is true for values of theChar from "a" through "z" and "B" though "Z"
> (inclusive); it is false for the value "A".

If you consider the characters to be ordered in the Human friendly sequence:

AaBbCcDdEeFfGg ... XxYyZz

you will see that the examples given make perfect sense.  Perhaps what is
needed in your particular application is

   theChar >= "A" and theChar <= "z"

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Sig     DS.L    ('ZBen')       ; Ben Cranston <zben@Trantor.UMD.EDU>
* Computer Science Center Network Infrastructures Group
* University of Maryland at College Park