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le (string less than or equal to)

Availability

Flash Lite 1.0.

Usage

expression1 le 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 or equal to 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:

animals = "cats";
breeds = 7;

trace ("persons" le "people");                    // output: 0(false)
trace ("cats" le "cattle");                        // output: 1(true)
trace (animals le "cats");                        // output: 1(true)
trace (animals le "Cats");                        // output: 0(false)
trace (breeds le "5");                            // output: 0(false)
trace (breeds le 7);                            // output: 1(true)

See also

<= (numeric less than or equal to)

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