>I guess this isn't such a big issue, but anyway…
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>I have gotten into the habit of using the # operator instead of <>. When reading other people's code, most seem to use <>. I think I once a long time ago have read some arguments why you shouldn't use the #-sign, but I'm not sure. Any thoughts?
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>Jens Erik

in addition to what Erik said, # is not always available in other development environments. For example, it does not work with SQL Server.