I understand why the first statement prints `true` but not why the second one does. I'd only expect ...

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[Ellen Spertus]

I understand why the first statement prints true but not why the second one does. I'd only expect substrings of the alphabet to return true. What's going on?

Untitled.cpp

[Kevin Healy]

It's checking whether the string would fall in the range using the default string comparator, which is alphabetical order. "apple" would indeed be after "a" and before "z" alphabetically

[Kevin Healy]

More in-depth answer here https://stackoverflow.com/a/46764287

[Ellen Spertus]

Very cool! I verified that the following expression is false:

"zz" in "a".."z"

[vimlesh yadav]

apple doesn't fall in the range a..z

[Vampire]

Why not? Obviously it does.

[Ellen Spertus]

According to compareTo() it does.