Visual Basic® 2010 Unleashed

Comparison Operators

As in its predecessors, Visual Basic 2010 still defines some comparison operators. Typically comparison operators are of three kinds: numeric operators, string operators, and object operators. Let’s see such operators in details.

Numeric Comparison Operators

You can compare numeric values using the operators listed in Table 4.12.

Table 4.12 Numeric Comparison Operators

Such operators return a Boolean value that is True or False. The following code snippet shows an example. (Comments within the code contain the Boolean value returned.)

String Comparison Operators

String comparison was discusses in the section “Working with ...