String Comparison And Alphabetic Order of Individual Characters

Question

I have a question related to string comparison vs. character comparison.

Characters > and 0 (zero) have following decimal values 62

Answer 1

When you compare the characters '>' and '0', you are comparing their ordinal values.

To get the same behaviour from a string comparison, supply the ordinal string comparison type:

  Console.WriteLine(string.Compare(">", "0", StringComparison.Ordinal));
  Console.WriteLine(string.Compare(">", "0", StringComparison.InvariantCulture));
  Console.WriteLine(string.Compare(">", "0", StringComparison.CurrentCulture));

The current culture is used by default, which has a sorting order intended to sort strings 'alphabetically' rather in strictly lexical order, for some definition of alphabetically.