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Asked: 2026-05-12T10:48:14+00:00

When I compare strings containing positive/negative numbers, for example: int res1 = -1.CompareTo(1); int

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When I compare strings containing positive/negative numbers, for example:

int res1 = "-1".CompareTo("1");
int res2 = "-1".CompareTo("2");

res1 equals 1.
res2 equals -1.

How does String.CompareTo work?? That would mean it is order is “2 -1 1″…

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  1. Editorial Team

    From MSDN:

    Certain nonalphanumeric characters
    might have special weights assigned to
    them. For example, the hyphen (“-“)
    might have a very small weight
    assigned to it so that “coop” and
    “co-op” appear next to each other in a
    sorted list.

    Edit: Forgot to mention, this is related to the CompareOptions enumeration used by string.Compare.

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