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(g77-295.info)LGe Intrinsic

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LGe Intrinsic
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     LGe(STRING_A, STRING_B)

LGe: `LOGICAL(KIND=1)' function.

STRING_A: `CHARACTER'; scalar; INTENT(IN).

STRING_B: `CHARACTER'; scalar; INTENT(IN).

Intrinsic groups: (standard FORTRAN 77).

Description:

   Returns `.TRUE.' if `STRING_A.GE.STRING_B', `.FALSE.' otherwise.
STRING_A and STRING_B are interpreted as containing ASCII character
codes.  If either value contains a character not in the ASCII character
set, the result is processor dependent.

   If the STRING_A and STRING_B are not the same length, the shorter is
compared as if spaces were appended to it to form a value that has the
same length as the longer.

   The lexical comparison intrinsics `LGe', `LGt', `LLe', and `LLt'
differ from the corresponding intrinsic operators `.GE.', `.GT.',
`.LE.', `.LT.'.  Because the ASCII collating sequence is assumed, the
following expressions always return `.TRUE.':

     LGE ('0', ' ')
     LGE ('A', '0')
     LGE ('a', 'A')

   The following related expressions do *not* always return `.TRUE.',
as they are not necessarily evaluated assuming the arguments use ASCII
encoding:

     '0' .GE. ' '
     'A' .GE. '0'
     'a' .GE. 'A'

   The same difference exists between `LGt' and `.GT.'; between `LLe'
and `.LE.'; and between `LLt' and `.LT.'.