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Comparison Operators | Control Structures
C# Basics
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C# Basics

C# Basics

1. Getting Started
2. Dealing with Data Types
3. Control Structures
4. Loops
5. Arrays
6. Methods

Comparison Operators

Before diving into control structures, we need to understand some operators. The first set of operators we will look at are called Comparison Operators.

As expressed by the name, the comparison operators are used for comparing values. Following is a list of all the comparison operators:

OperatorOperation
==Equal To
!=Not Equal To
>Greater Than
<Less Than
>=Greater Than or Equal To
<=Less Than or Equal To

Using comparison operators we can create logical expressions that return logical values, such as true or false. For-example the expression 5 < 1 will output false as 5 is not greater than 1.

Note

We can directly put expressions in the Console.Write methods.

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using System; namespace ConsoleApp { internal class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { Console.WriteLine(5 < 1); // Output: False } } }

Following are some more examples of expressions formed using comparison operators:

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using System; namespace ConsoleApp { internal class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { Console.WriteLine(1 == 2); // Output: False Console.WriteLine(2 == 2); // Output: True Console.WriteLine(5 < 10); // Output: True Console.WriteLine(5 < 5); // Output: False (5 is NOT less than 5) Console.WriteLine(5 <= 5); // Output: True Console.WriteLine(5 >= 5); // Output: True Console.WriteLine(7 != 9); // Output: True } } }

We can also put variables in these expressions:

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using System; namespace ConsoleApp { internal class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { int value_1 = 7; int value_2 = 9; Console.WriteLine(value_1 == value_2); // Output: False Console.WriteLine(value_1 > value_2); // Output: False Console.WriteLine(value_1 < value_2); // Output: True Console.WriteLine(value_2 > 5); // Output: True } } }

We can store the results of the logical expressions into bool variables since boolean variables can hold a value of true or false:

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using System; namespace ConsoleApp { internal class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { int x = 5; int y = 7; bool result = x > y; Console.WriteLine(result); // Output: False } } }

What will be the output of the following code?

Select the correct answer

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