Introduction to Numeric Comparison Operations

VBScript Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples - Version 5.20, by Dr. Herong Yang

VBScript Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples

∟Numeric Comparison Operations and Logical Operations

∟Introduction to Numeric Comparison Operations

This section provides a quick introduction of numeric comparison operations supported by VBScript: Equal to, Not equal to, Greater than, Less than, Greater than or equal to, Less than or equal to.

Numeric comparison operations are operations that:

Operates on two numeric operands.
Produces a Boolean value by applying the comparison operation specified by the operator.

There are 6 numeric comparison operations supported in VBScript:

Equal to (=): Resulting (True) if two operands are numerically equal.
Not equal to (<>): Resulting (True) if two operands are numerically not equal.
Greater than (>): Resulting (True) if the first operand is numerically greater than the second operand.
Less than (<): Resulting (True) if the first operand is numerically less than the second operand.
Greater than or equal to (>=): Resulting (True) if the first operand is numerically greater than or equal to the second operand.
Less than or equal to (<=): Resulting (True) if the first operand is numerically less than or equal to the second operand.

To show you how numeric comparison operations work, I wrote the following script, comparison_operation.html:

<html>
<body>
<!-- comparison_operation.html
 - Copyright (c) 2015, HerongYang.com, All Rights Reserved.
-->
<pre>
<script language="vbscript">
   document.writeln(1 = 1)
   document.writeln(1 <> 1)
   document.writeln(9.9999e-1 > 9.99999e-1)
   document.writeln(9.9999e-1 < 1)
   document.writeln(9.9999e-1 >= 0.99999)
   document.writeln(1.00000001 <= 1)
</script>
</pre>
</body>
</html>

Here is the output of this VBScript example script: