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JavaScript

Posted by Daniel Taylor
Daniel Taylor
4,448 Points

Are comparison operators only used in conditional statements?

Are comparison operators only used in conditional statements? If not, could somebody please provide a simple example of how else they can be used. Thanks, Dan.

Giorgi Kiknadze
Giorgi Kiknadze
Courses Plus Student 1,690 Points

Here are examples where you can use comparison operators: Most often people use it in conditional statements, but also you can use it to assign true or false on variable.

var a = 5;
var b = 6;

if ( a > b ) {
  //Do something
}

//another example:
var answer = 5 > 4;
// -> answer = true

2 Answers

Jacob Mishkin
Jacob Mishkin
23,118 Points
Jacob Mishkin
Jacob Mishkin
23,118 Points

Dan the answer is yes. here is an example of using comparison operators outside of a conditional statement.

note check out Ann Tudor's codepen. Just so you know this is really advanced stuff. I hardly know what is going on here. 

Object.getOwnPropertyNames(Math).map(function(p) {
  window[p] = Math[p];
});

var rand = function(min, max, isInt) {
  var max = ((max - 1) || 0) + 1, 
      min = min || 0, 
      gen = min + (max - min)*random();

  return (isInt)?(~~gen):gen;
};

var randsign = function() {
  return (random() < .5)?-1:1;
};

Here is the result:

http://codepen.io/thebabydino/pen/zxdXbq?editors=001

I hope this helps.

Daniel Taylor
Daniel Taylor
4,448 Points
Daniel Taylor
Daniel Taylor
4,448 Points

Hi both, thanks for your answers. Dan.