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Comment:Minor changes to the 'Expressions' section of lang.in.
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User & Date: dan 2010-07-17 18:42:53.000
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2010-07-21
16:11
Update news, change log, and testing statistics prior to the release. (check-in: cc4bcb6790 user: drh tags: trunk)
2010-07-17
18:42
Minor changes to the 'Expressions' section of lang.in. (check-in: 8ddf5c33ed user: dan tags: trunk)
15:42
Note in the docs that "+ NULL" is NULL. (check-in: 29da1fe525 user: dan tags: trunk)
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<blockquote><pre>
<font color="#2c2cf0"><big>||
*    /    %
+    -
&lt;&lt;   &gt;&gt;   &amp;    |
&lt;    &lt;=   &gt;    &gt;=
=    ==   !=   &lt;&gt;   </big>IS  IN  LIKE  GLOB  MATCH  REGEXP
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OR</font>
</pre></blockquote>)^

<p>^(Supported unary prefix operators are these:</p>

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&lt;    &lt;=   &gt;    &gt;=
=    ==   !=   &lt;&gt;   </big>IS   IS NOT   IN   LIKE   GLOB   MATCH   REGEXP
AND   
OR</font>
</pre></blockquote>)^

<p>^(Supported unary prefix operators are these:</p>

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<tcl>
hd_puts "[Operator =] or [Operator ==].
^The non-equals operator can be either
[Operator !=] or [Operator {&lt;&gt;}].
^The [Operator ||] operator is \"concatenate\" - it joins together
the two strings of its operands.
^The operator [Operator %] outputs the remainder of its left 
operand modulo its right operand.</p>

<p>^The result of any binary operator is a numeric value, except
for the [Operator ||] concatenation operator which gives a string
result.</p>"

hd_fragment {isisnot} {IS operator} {IS NOT operator}

hd_puts "<p>^The [Operator IS] and [Operator {IS NOT}] operators work
like [Operator =] and [Operator !=] except that NULL values compare





equal to one another.  ^[Operator IS] and [Operator {IS NOT}]
have the same precedence as [Operator =]."

<tcl>hd_fragment litvalue {literal value}</tcl>
<h3>Literal Values</h3>
<p>
^A literal value is a constant of some kind.
^Literal values may be integers, floating point numbers, strings,
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<tcl>
hd_puts "[Operator =] or [Operator ==].
^The non-equals operator can be either
[Operator !=] or [Operator {&lt;&gt;}].
^The [Operator ||] operator is \"concatenate\" - it joins together
the two strings of its operands.
^The operator [Operator %] outputs the value of its left 
operand modulo its right operand.</p>

<p>^The result of any binary operator is either a numeric value or 
NULL, except for the [Operator ||] concatenation operator which always 
evaluates to either NULL or a text value.</p>"

hd_fragment {isisnot} {IS operator} {IS NOT operator}

hd_puts "<p>^The [Operator IS] and [Operator {IS NOT}] operators work
like [Operator =] and [Operator !=] except when one or both of the
operands are NULL. ^In this case, if both operands are NULL, then the
IS operator evaluates to 1 (true) and the IS NOT operator evaluates
to 0 (false). ^If one operand is NULL and the other is not, then the
IS operator evaluates to 0 (false) and the IS NOT operator is 1 (true).
^It is not possible for an IS or IS NOT expression to evaluate to NULL.
^Operators [Operator IS] and [Operator {IS NOT}] have the same 
precedence as [Operator =]."

<tcl>hd_fragment litvalue {literal value}</tcl>
<h3>Literal Values</h3>
<p>
^A literal value is a constant of some kind.
^Literal values may be integers, floating point numbers, strings,
BLOBs, or NULLs.
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