Relational Operators in C#.Net

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In this asp.net c# post we will learn relational operators with example.

Relational Operators in C#.Net

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Relational operator also known as comparison operators.
The comparison operators used to compare two operands and returns true or false based on comparison.

C# Supports following Comparison operators

Assume int variable X=10 and variable Y=5 then

ID	OPERATOR	DETAIL	EXAMPLE
1	==	Equal equal to	if(X == Y) then false
2	!=	Not equal to	if(X != Y) then true
3	<	Less than	if(X < Y) then false
4	>	Greater than	if(X > Y) then true
5	<=	Less than or equal to	if(X <= Y) then false
6	>=	Greater than or equal to	if(X >= Y) then true

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Equal == comparison operator

Example

int a = 5;
int b = 5;

if(a == b)
{
“a is equal to b”;
}
else
{
“a is not equal to b”
}

The output is :
a is equal to b

In above c# example a and b both are same, then if condition return true and print “a is equal to b” in output.

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Not Equal != comparison operator

Example

int a = 5;
int b = 5;

if(a != b)
{
“a is equal to b”;
}
else
{
“a is not equal to b”
}

The output is :
a is not equal to b

In above c# example a and b both are same, then if condition return false and print else portion “a is not equal to b” in output because we use not equal operator.

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< Less than and <= Less than or Equal to operators

Example

int a = 15;
int b = 5;

if(a < b)
{
“a is smaller than b”;
}
else if(a <= b)
{
“a is equal to b”;
}
else
{
 “a is bigger than b”;
}

The output is :
a is bigger than b

Here, a=15 and b=5, so a is not smaller and not equal to b. The both if condition not satisfy then the result will be last else portion “a is bigger than b”.

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> Greater than and >= Greater than or Equal to operators

Example

int a = 15;
int b = 5;

if(a > b)
{
 “a is bigger than b”;
}
else if(a >= b)
{
“a is equal to b”;
}
else
{
“a is smaller than b”;
}

The output is :
a is bigger than b

In above c# example the result is “a is bigger than b” because a=15 value bigger than b=5 value.

The first if condition returns true if only a is greater than b. If suppose a=5 and b=5, then the second if condition will be true and result is “a is equal to b”.

We hope that this asp.net tutorial helped you to understand about Relational Operators in C#.

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Next asp.net tutorial we will learn about Assignment Operators.

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