I love my new job. By the end of the day I was writing production viable vbscript using classes to validate input like zip code with and without extensions and all the different flavors of phone numbers. I also got put in charge of crackberry and mobile development.
Best of all I got my schedule changed to 10 to 6:30 and I am able to write this walking home from my supermobile while listening to live streaming radio.
Ah, but if it is doing a comparison (and not an equality check), then the result could be negative (if first string is less than the second), 0 (if they are equal) or positive (if first is greater than the second). Think of it as the "<=>" operator. For example, the comparison function in Unix's qsort() routine does the same thing.