MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-FLASH LITE 2.X ACTIONSCRIPT LANGUAGE - Le Less than or Equal to (Strings) Operator

Operators 157
Availability: ActionScript 1.0; Flash Lite 1.0 - In Flash 4, <= is a numeric operator. In Flash 5
or later, the less than or equal to (
<= ) operator is a comparison operator capable of handling
various data types. Flash 4 files that are 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)
Operands
expression1 : Object - A number or string.
expression2 : Object - A number or string.
Returns
Boolean - The Boolean result of the comparison.
Example
The following examples show
true and false results for both numeric and string
comparisons:
trace(5 <= 10); // true
trace(2 <= 2); // true
trace(10 <= 3); // false
trace("Allen" <= "Jack"); // true
trace("Jack" <= "Allen"); // false
trace("11" <= "3"); // true
trace("11" <= 3); // false (numeric comparison)
trace("C" <= "abc"); // true
trace("A" <= a); // true
le less than or equal to (strings) operator
expression1 le expression2
Deprecated since Flash Player 5. This operator was deprecated in Flash 5 in favor of the <=
(less than or equal to) operator.
Compares
expression1 to expression2 and returns a value of true if expression1 is less
than or equal to
expression2, false otherwise.
Availability: ActionScript 1.0; Flash Lite 1.0