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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

#2472 — what does <> mean in Filemaker?

Here's the example.  In a custom function from the Advanced Training Series:
Let ([

 

numOnly = Filter ( phoneNumber; "1234567890" );

 

error = Case ( Length ( numOnly )<> 10; 1; 0 )

 

];

 

Case ( not error;

 

"(" & Left ( numOnly; 3 ) &

 

") " &

 

Middle ( numOnly; 4; 3 ) & "-" &

 

Middle ( numOnly; 7; 4 );

 

phoneNumber

 

)

 

)

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#2473

I got it.  Apparently it's just another way (as if we needed one) to say not equal to. :)

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#2474

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 ">=".

Howard

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#2475

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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#2490

Thanks Harry.  I hadn't seen it for a while, it was bugging me as I knew I should have known what it meant.  I'd just got used to the options I was given in FM , and obv. hadn't had to copy and paste it out of FM :)

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#2491

In article <e48a1c5a-403a-4385-abff-c4b0285a1e87@googlegroups.com>,
JayBee <Jennifer_Beecroft@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks Harry.  I hadn't seen it for a while, it was bugging me as I knew I
> should have known what it meant.  I'd just got used to the options I was
> given in FM , and obv. hadn't had to copy and paste it out of FM :)

It also makes sense if you think about those symbols individually, sort
of.

"A <> B" could be thought of as simply a shortened version of "(A < B)
or (A > B)", saying "A is less than or greater than B", which by
definition must mean A can not equal B.

Helpful Harry   :o)

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#2476

On Wed, 4 Nov 2015 11:58:43 -0800, Howard Schlossberg 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. 

Maybe due to win, maybe a FMP bug, but nowaydays no reason at all to
omit the ≠. Even the the formerly ASCII based usenet can cope with that.

Martin

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#2489

Good point Howard, that's true :)

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