(Less Than) - MACROMEDIA FLASH MX 2004-ACTIONSCRIPT LANGUAGE Reference

< (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,
that are 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
Returns
A Boolean value.
Description
Operator (comparison); compares two expressions and determines whether
than
expression2
, the operator returns
expression2
order; all capital letters come before lowercase letters.
For more information, see "Operator precedence and associativity" in Using ActionScript in Flash.
Example
The following examples show
trace(3<10); // true
trace(10<3); // false
trace("Allen"<"Jack"); // true
trace("Jack"<"Allen"); //false
trace("11"<"3"); // true
trace("11"<3); // false (numeric comparison)
trace("C"<"abc"); // true
trace("A"<"a"); // true
A number or string.
; if so, the operator returns
false
and
true false
(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 comparisons:
is less
expression1
is greater than or equal to
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