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Re: what does <> mean in Filemaker?

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In article <n1dntb$jog$1@news.motzarella.org>, Howard Schlossberg
<howard@nospam.fmprosolutions.com> wrote:
> On 11/4/2015 9:15 AM, JayBee wrote:
> > 
> > I got it.  Apparently it's just another way (as if we needed one) to say
> > not equal to. :)
> 
> If you ask me, it is the PREFERRED way of saying not equal.  The 
> not-equal sign used in FileMaker does not copy properly into a text 
> document (ends up as a question mark), at least on Windows.  Same is 
> true for the FileMaker more/less-than-or-equal-to symbol.  Instead, I 
> always use "<>" or "<=" or ">=".

<> is the original "not equal" symbol in programming languages like
BASIC from back when there was no ‚ (= with slash through it) symbol on
computers. The C programming language had to be different and went with
the != symbol instead.

It's certainly easier to type <> on Windows computers than try and
figure out what the obscure keyboard code is (on a Mac you just hold
down the Option key and press = to get the mathematically /
typographically correct version).

Helpful Harry  :o)

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what does <> mean in Filemaker? JayBee <Jennifer_Beecroft@hotmail.com> - 2015-11-04 09:11 -0800
  Re: what does <> mean in Filemaker? JayBee <Jennifer_Beecroft@hotmail.com> - 2015-11-04 09:15 -0800
    Re: what does <> mean in Filemaker? Howard Schlossberg <howard@nospam.fmprosolutions.com> - 2015-11-04 11:58 -0800
      Re: what does <> mean in Filemaker? Helpful Harry <HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> - 2015-11-05 09:53 +1300
        Re: what does <> mean in Filemaker? JayBee <Jennifer_Beecroft@hotmail.com> - 2015-11-09 09:23 -0800
          Re: what does <> mean in Filemaker? Helpful Harry <HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> - 2015-11-10 09:12 +1300
      Re: what does <> mean in Filemaker? Martin Τrautmann <t-usenet@gmx.net> - 2015-11-05 08:08 +0000
      Re: what does <> mean in Filemaker? JayBee <Jennifer_Beecroft@hotmail.com> - 2015-11-09 09:20 -0800

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