HP Fortran Programmer's Reference

Intrinsic procedures
Intrinsic procedure specifications
The result is .TRUE. if STRING_A follows STRING_B in the ASCII collating sequence;
otherwise, the result is .FALSE.. Note that the result is .FALSE. if both STRING_A and
STRING_B areofzerolength.
LLE(STRING_A, STRING_B)
Description
Tests whether a string is lexically less than or equal to another string, based on the ASCII
collating sequence.
Class
Elemental function.
Arguments
STRING_A must be of type default character.
STRING_B must be of type default character.
Result type/
type parameters
Default logical.
Result value
If the strings are of unequal length, the comparison is made as if the shorter string were
extended on the right with blanks to the length of the longer string.
If either string contains a character not in the ASCII character set, the result is processor
dependent.
The result is .TRUE. if the strings are equal or if STRING_A precedes STRING_B in the ASCII
collating sequence; otherwise, the result is .FALSE.. Note that the result is .TRUE. if both
STRING_A and STRING_B areofzerolength.
LLT(STRING_A, STRING_B)
Description
Tests whether a string is lexically less than another string, based on the ASCII collating
sequence.
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