AppleScript: The Definitive Guide by Matt Neuburg

Author:Matt Neuburg
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: COMPUTERS / Operating Systems / Macintosh
ISBN: 9780596102111
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Published: 2003-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

Name

≥

Synopsis

greater than or equal to

greater than or equal to

Syntax

operand1 ≥ operand2

Description

Yields true if the first operand is greater than or equal to the second. Abbreviation is >=, or the ≥ symbol may be typed using Option-period. Synonym is greater than or equal to has abbreviations omitting is, to, or both. There are also synonyms does not come before and is not less than.

Containment Operators

The containment operators test whether the value of one thing is to be found "inside" the value of another. For example, the string "test" contains the string "e". Containment may apply to two strings, two lists, or two records. The result is a boolean.

Containment implies comparison, and the nature of comparisons involving strings can be influenced by a considering clause; see Chapter 19.

It is worth stressing that in the case of list containment, both operands must be lists. In other words, the second operand is not an element; it's a sublist. This is a little counterintuitive at first. To complicate matters, AppleScript fools you by apparently letting you say just what you (wrongly) think you should be allowed to say:

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