Comparison Operators

Part of the Fundamentals section of Coddy's Java journey — lesson 20 of 73.

Comparison operators are used to compare between two operands.

Sometimes we need to check whether an operand is bigger/smaller/... than another operand.

The following table shows possible operators for comparison:

Operator	Meaning	Example
==	Equal	1 == 2 returns false
!=	Not Equal	1 != 2 returns true
>	Greater Than	1 > 2 returns false
<	Less Than	1 < 2 returns true
>=	Greater or Equal	1 >= 2 returns false
<=	Less or Equal	1 <= 2 returns true

The comparison operator returns true if the comparison is correct or false otherwise.

For example:

int var1 = 13;
int var2 = 12;
boolean var3 = var1 != var2;

var3 will hold true because var1 and var2 are not equal

Remember the boolean type, var3 is a boolean.

Challenge

Beginner

Write a script that initializes 2 variables n1 and n2 with the values 8 and 9 (accordingly).

After that initialize another variable n3 that will hold whether n1 is bigger than n2.

Cheat sheet

Comparison operators are used to compare between two operands and return true or false:

Operator	Meaning	Example
==	Equal	1 == 2 returns false
!=	Not Equal	1 != 2 returns true
>	Greater Than	1 > 2 returns false
<	Less Than	1 < 2 returns true
>=	Greater or Equal	1 >= 2 returns false
<=	Less or Equal	1 <= 2 returns true

Example usage:

int var1 = 13;
int var2 = 12;
boolean var3 = var1 != var2; // var3 will hold true

Try it yourself

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // Type your code below
        
        
        // Don't change the line below
        System.out.println("n1 = " + n1 + ", n2 = " + n2 + ", n3 = " + n3);
    }
}