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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)