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JavaScript JavaScript Basics (Retired) Making Decisions with Conditional Statements Comparison Operators

Aakash Srivastav
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Aakash Srivastav
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String and Number

What does it mean "a letter string always come after the number string?" i,e if you compare a number and a letter , a number is less than a number.

2 Answers

Jason Anello
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Jason Anello
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Jason Anello
Jason Anello
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Hi Aakash,

It helps to understand this by looking at an ascii chart like this one: http://www.asciitable.com/

In that table you can see that the digits come before the letters in the alphabet. When you make string comparisons like that, it's comparing based off the order in that table. The character "1" has a lower decimal value than the character "a", for example.

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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That's not quite what was said.

The actual sentence is "If you compared a number and a letter, a number is less than a letter."

Example:

var numberstring = "123";
var letterstring = "abc";
if (numberstring < letterstring) {
  console.log("The letter string comes after the number string.");
}
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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You understand alphabetical order, right? Where "a" comes before "f"?

Well, "5" comes before "a". That's all they are saying, numbers before letters.