< (less than)

Availability

Flash Player 4; Flash Player 5. In Flash 5 and later, the < (less than) operator 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 or later authoring environment undergo a conversion process to maintain data type integrity. The following illustrates the conversion of a Flash 4 file containing a numeric quality comparison.

Flash 4 file:

x < y

Converted Flash 5 or later file:

Number(x) < Number(y)

Usage

expression1 < expression2

Parameters

expression1,expression2 A number or string.

Description

Operator (comparison); compares two expressions and determines whether expression1 is less than expression2; if so, the operator returns true. If expression1 is greater than or equal to expression2, the operator returns false. String expressions are evaluated using alphabetical order; all capital letters come before lowercase letters.

Example

The following examples illustrate true and false returns for both numeric and string comparisons.

3 < 10;
// true

10 < 3;
// false

"Allen" < "Jack";
// true

"Jack" < "Allen";
// false

"11" < "3";
//true

"11" < 3;
// numeric comparison
// false

"C" < "abc";
// false

"A" < "a";
// true