A comparison of two sequences of characters. Use Option Compare to specify binary or text comparison. In English-U.S., binary comparisons are case sensitive; text comparisons are not.

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The use of an operator to determine whether one string is greater than or equal to another string. If you use Option Compare Text in the Declarations section of a module, string comparisons are not case-sensitive. If you use Option Compare Binary, comparisons are case-sensitive. If you use Option Compare Database, the comparison method is set by the current database.