eq (string equality)

Availability

Flash Lite 1.0.

Usage

expression1 eq expression2

Operands

expression1, expression2 Numbers, strings, or variables.

Description

Comparison operator; compares two expressions for equality and returns true if the string representation of expression1 is equal to the string representation of expression2; otherwise, the operation returns false.

Example

The following examples show true and false results:

word = "persons";
figure = "55";

trace("persons" eq "people");        // output: 0(false)
trace("persons" eq word);        // output: 1(true)
trace(figure eq 50 + 5);        // output: 1(true)
trace(55.0 eq 55);        // output: 1(true)

See also

== (numeric equality)