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< (less than)
Availability
Flash Player 4; Flash Player 5. In Flash 5 and later, the
operator capable of handling various data types. In Flash 4,
brought into the Flash 5 or later authoring environment undergo a conversion process to
maintain data type integrity. The following illustrates the conversion of a Flash 4 file containing a
numeric quality comparison.
Flash 4 file:
x < y
Converted Flash 5 or later file:
Number(x) < Number(y)
Usage
expression1 < expression2
Parameters
expression1,expression2
Description
Operator (comparison); compares two expressions and determines whether
than
expression2
, the operator returns
expression2
order; all capital letters come before lowercase letters.
Example
The following examples illustrate
comparisons.
3 < 10;
// true
10 < 3;
// false
"Allen" < "Jack";
// true
"Jack" < "Allen";
// false
"11" < "3";
//true
"11" < 3;
// numeric comparison
// false
"C" < "abc";
// false
"A" < "a";
// true
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A number or string.
; if so, the operator returns
false
and
true
(less than) operator is a comparison
<
is an numeric operator. Flash 4 files
<
. If
true expression1
. String expressions are evaluated using alphabetical
returns for both numeric and string
false
is less
expression1
is greater than or equal to