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