The domain of < is numeric. You can create a function for letters with 
reference to alphabetic order or some given order including say all ASCI 
characters.

> On Dec 9, 2022, at 3:47 AM, Jimmy Gauvin <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> testing character data for equality works fine but testing for relative
> order does not.
> 
>   'a'<'v'
> 
> |domain error
> 
> |   'a'    <'v'
> 
>   'a'='v'
> 
> 0
> 
> Is this explained somewhere ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jimmy
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