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Mike Me
5,148 Pointscomparison operatings
I'm a bit confused,
why ("apple" > "bear") is true but ("lion" > "zebra") is false??
as I know if letter comes first(alphabetically ) than it's greater. but despite that letter "L" comes before "Z" the condition false. please explain why??
2 Answers
Jacek Szemplinski
6,423 PointsHi Mike,
In most programming languages, including Javascript, strings are compared lexicographically (see this Wikipedia page for some fancy scientific explanation ;).
So, basically, how "apple" > "bear" is evaluated:
Let's take first character of each string.
'a' is LESS than 'b' (it lies closer to the beginning of alphabet than b), so whole statement evaluates to false
"lion" > "zebra" example:
Let's take first character of each string
'l' is LESS than 'z', so again, whole statement evaluates to false
I don't know why for you "apple" > "bear" evaluated to true, but it could happen if, by a mistake, you added a capital letter instead of lowercase letter in "bear". Lowercase letters are greater than uppercase letters.
Jacek.
Mike Me
5,148 PointsBy bad! I did think that a is greater than b which confused and made me ask silly questions, Thanks to you I found it ))
karson Adam
32,623 Pointskarson Adam
32,623 Points("apple" > "bear") is false