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106 Flash Lite Operators
lt (string less than)
Availability
Flash Lite 1.0.
Usage
expression1 lt expression2
Operands
expression1
,
expression2
Numbers, strings, or variables.
Description
Operator (comparison); compares the string representation of
expression1
to the string
representation of
expression2
and returns a
true
value if
expression1
is less than
expression2
; otherwise, it returns a
false
value. Strings are compared using alphabetical
order; digits precede all letters, and all capital letters precede lowercase letters.
Example
The following examples show the output of various string comparisons. In the last line, notice
that
lt
does not return an error when you compare a string to an integer because ActionScript
1.0 syntax tries to convert the integer data type to a string and returns
false
.
animals = "cats";
breeds = 7;
trace ("persons" lt "people");// output: 0(false)
trace ("cats" lt "cattle");// output: 1(true)
trace (animals lt "cats");// output: 0(false)
trace (animals lt "Cats");// output: 0(false)
trace (breeds lt "5");// output: 0(false)
trace (breeds lt 7);// output: 0(false)
See also
< (numeric less than)
le (string less than or equal to)
Availability
Flash Lite 1.0.
Usage
expression1 le expression2