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Hi there - Is there a proper way to get EE to recognize negative values in a conditional?  I have an EE1 site with a weblog that includes an inventory field.  Occasionally the inventory field contains a negative value (coming from my client - believe it means one has been ordered but is not in stock and therefore must be ordered).  So in our product display templates, i have a conditional:

{if inventory >> "0"}show the add to cart button{if:else}show out of stock message{/if}

It works until such time that an entry includes a negative value in the inventory field.  Then, it still shows the add to cart button since it would appear EE conditionals are ignoring the negative.  I even tried a test is a blank template:

{if "-1" >> "0"}wrong{if:else}right{/if}

When i render it, i get “wrong” - so EE is definitely not recognizing that a negative value is NOT greater than zero.  What can I do about this?

What version and build of EE are you using? That said, what is “>>” supposed to signify? It’s not a supported operator, to the best of my knowledge.

Ah, so that’s the issue!  For some reason i thought you had to double up on > and < symbols like you do with =.  My bad.  I have changed it and it works fine now!

Glad to see it was an easy one 😊 Please post again as needed.