Finally, all that said and done — I can't reproduce your problem ...
Not surprising: the OP's warning specifically says numeric gt (>), not string gt. I suspect that the warning is coming from a different line of code.
Hugo
In reply to Re^2: Use of uninitialized value in numeric gt (>)
by hv
in thread Use of uninitialized value in numeric gt (>)
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