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Compare strings with the = method

It compares the character code values of the strings,  returning -1 (less than),            0 (equals), or            1 (greater than), depending on the comparison, which is case-sensitive "a" <=> "a" # => 0 "a" <=> 97.chr # => 0 "a" <=> "b" # => -1 "a" <=> "'" # => 1