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# Comparison Functions

Comparison functions always return 0 or 1 (Uint8).

The following types can be compared:

- numbers
- strings and fixed strings
- dates
- dates with times

within each group, but not between different groups.

For example, you can’t compare a date with a string. You have to use a function to convert the string to a date, or vice versa.

Strings are compared by bytes. A shorter string is smaller than all strings that start with it and that contain at least one more character.

### equals, a `=` b and a `==` b operator

### notEquals, a `!=` b and a `<>` b operator

### less, `<` operator

### greater, `>` operator

### lessOrEquals, `<=` operator

### greaterOrEquals, `>=` operator