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

chris eaton
chris eaton
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Posted by chris eaton
chris eaton
1,159 Points

clarification of comparisons of strings

during the quiz in the javascript conditionals section, a question was asked about which string was greater than another. 'lion' > 'zebra' true or false? i put true, because l comes before z in the alphabet, but i got it wrong. could you please clarify this for me? thank you so much

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Julien riera
Julien riera
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Julien riera
Julien riera
14,665 Points

It's actually the other way around.

"L" comes before "Z", so earlier in the alphabet order. So L < Z. Replace the actual letter by his rank number (L = 12 and Z = 26), it should help for future reference.

Cheers,

Moderator Edited: Moved response from Comment to Answer section