Comparison Operators

Comparison operators are provided to enable you to build comparison statements in your scripts. The comparison operators are displayed when you open the Comparison operators folder in the Commands list box of the Add Script Field or Update Script Field dialogs, as shown in the following image.

Comparison operators are available only for full scripts. The comparison operators are listed in the following table.

Operator	Function	When selected, provides…
x = y	Equals	The equals symbol (=)
x < y	Less than	The less than symbol (<)
x <= y	Less than or equal to	The less than or equal to symbol (<=)
x > y	Greater than	The greater than symbol (>)
x >= y	Greater than or equal to	The greater than or equal to symbol (>=)
x <> y	Not equal to	The not equal to symbol (<>)
and	Logical and	The and operator
or	Logical or	The or operator
not	Logical not	The not operator