Operators > < (less than)

< (less than)

Syntax

expression1 < expression2

Arguments

expression1,expression2 Numbers or strings.

Description

Operator (comparison); compares two expressions and determines whether expression1 is less than expression2 (true), or whether expression1 is greater than or equal to expression2 (false). String expressions are evaluated and compared based on the number of characters in the string.

Player

Flash 4; Flash 5 or later. In Flash 5 < is a comparison operator capable of handling various data types. In Flash 4 < is an numeric operator. Flash 4 files brought into the Flash 5 authoring environment undergo a conversion process to maintain data type integrity. The first example below illustrates the conversion process.

Example

The following illustrates the conversion of a Flash 4 file containing a numeric quality comparison.

Flash 4 file:

x < y

Converted Flash 5 file:

Number(x) < Number(y)

The following examples illustrate true and false returns for both numbers and strings:

3 < 10 or "Al" < "Jack" return true

10 < 3 or "Jack" < "Al" return false