Understanding Java Comparison Operators: Equal, Greater, Less and More

Author: Tatyana Milkina

The result of executing comparison operators is a boolean value. Most often, comparison operators are used in expressions that control the if statement and various loop operators.

It is allowed to compare values of any type using the == and != operators.

Comparison using ordering operations is allowed only for numeric data types.

For example:

int a = 4;
int b = 1;
boolean c = a < b;

The following table contains all existing Java comparison operators:

Comparison Operators
Operator Description
== Equal to
!= Not equal to
> Greater than
< Less than
>= Greater than or equal to
<= Less than or equal to
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