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2 General program functions

viva 1.1 (for process analysis)

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Oper-
and1

Oper-
and2

Result

Example

Remark

Text

Text

Number

"Metrohm" < "AG" --> 0

When making a comparison between two
texts, the ASCII value of the character
string is compared (see Chapter 2.3.4.10,
page 75)
.
Attention: Uppercase and
lowercase letters have different values!

Time

Time

Number

Time(1998;04;06) <
Time(1964;02;03) --> 0

(see Chapter 2.3.4.6.2, page 63)

Operands of a different type:

Number

Text

Number

1.2 < "Metrohm" --> 11.2 <
"1" --> 0

Before the relational operation, the Num-
ber
is converted to Text, afterwards the
texts are compared according to ASCII
value
(see Chapter 2.3.4.10, page 75).

Text

Number

Number

"Metrohm" < 1.2 --> 0

The same rules apply here as for the previ-
ous operation.

Number

Time

Number

2.0 < Time(1999;10;07) -->
1

Before the comparison, the operand is con-
verted from Date/Time to a Number.

Time

Number

Number

Time(1999;10;07) < 2.0 -->
0

The same rules apply here as for the previ-
ous operation.

Text

Time

Number

"Metrohm" <
Time(1999;10;07) --> 0

Before the operation, the operand is con-
verted from Date/Time to Text (in this
example: "1999-10-07 00:00:00 UTC
+2"
), afterwards the texts are compared
according to ASCII value (see Chapter
2.3.4.10, page 75)
.

Time

Text

Number

Time(1999;10;7) <
"Metrohm" --> 1

The same rules apply here as for the previ-
ous operation.

2.3.4.4.5

Less than or equal to

Dialog window: Formula editor

Operators/Functions

Syntax
Operand1 <= Operand2

The operands can be entered either directly or as variables and can be of
the Text, Number or Date/Time type. The result type is always a num-
ber (1 = true, 0 = false).

Examples

Oper-
and1

Oper-
and2

Result

Example

Remark

Operands of the same type:

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