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iRule Maintenance Windows

A fun, but not well known, feature on BIG-IP is the Statistics Profile. This tech tip is the second in a series on how the Statistics Profile and iRules, when working together, can save time, product...
Published Apr 10, 2007
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How is it that string comparisons will lead to incorrect results. a string compare for 0800 will be less than 0900 and 1430 is greater then 0600. Can you provide an example of two times in HHMM format that will not work for a string comparison as opposed to a math comparison?

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