Equality and Relational Operators

The equality and relational operators determine the relationship between the two operands. It checks if an operand is greater than, less than, equal to, not equal to and so on. Depending on the relationship, it is evaluated to either true or false.

Table 2.5: Equality and relational operators

Operator	Description	Example
==	equal to	5 == 3 is evaluated to false
!=	not equal to	5 != 3 is evaluated to true
>	greater than	5 > 3 is evaluated to true
<	less than	5 < 3 is evaluated to false
>=	greater than or equal to	5 >= 5 is evaluated to true
<=	less than or equal to	5 <= 5 is evaluated to true

Equality and relational operators are used in decision making and loops (which will be discussed later). For now, check this simple example.