what is difference between Binary comparison and Text comparison. Please explain with an example?

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Permalink Reply by poorna sri jami on May 30, 2012 at 10:08am

Binary comparison usually checks byte to byte.
So 'A'(65) is different than 'a'(92?).
Binary comparsion makes no assumptions on the data and will accept/compare any values at all.

Textual comparison compares the text. So 'A' would be same as 'a'.
Typically text comparison will only accept printable text characters, a-z, A - Z, etc. It will sometimes make assumptions on construction (e.g., null terminated strings). When using file comparers it will also stop at a Control-Z character which, is an end of file marker.

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