Name
Option Compare Statement
Syntax
Option Compare {Binary | Text}
Description
Used to set the default method for comparing string data
Rules at a Glance
When
Option
Compare
is not used in a module, the default comparison method is Binary.When
Option
Compare
is used, it must appear at the start of the module’s declarations section, before any procedures.Binary comparison —the default text comparison method in Visual Basic—uses the internal binary code of each character to determine the sort order of the characters. For example,
"A"
<
"a"
.Text comparison uses the locale settings of the current system to determine the sort order of the characters. Text comparison is case insensitive. For example,
"A"
=
"a"
.
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