Comparison Operators in Programming

What is a Comparison Operator?

A comparison operator is one or more symbols that tells the computer how to compare two values or variables.

The result of a comparison operator is a boolean value (true or false).

See this page for an overview of other types of operators.

The most common comparison operators are:

• == (Equal to)
• != (Not equal to)
• > (Greater than)
• < (Less than)
• >= (Greater than or equal to)
• <= (Less than or equal to)

In the example below, we use the == operator to compare the value 10 with the value 5, to check if they are equal:

print(10 == 5)

console.log(10 == 5);

System.out.println(10 == 5);

cout << (10 == 5);

Try the simulation below to see the result of different comparison operators:

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