# eq (equal — string specific)

#### Availability

Flash Player 4. This operator has been deprecated in Flash 5 in favor of the `== (equality)` operator.

#### Usage

    expression1 eq expression2

#### Parameters

`expression1, expression2` Numbers, strings, or variables.

#### Returns

Nothing.

#### Description

Comparison operator; compares two expressions for equality and returns a value of `true` if the string representation of `expression1` is equal to the string representation of `expression2`; otherwise, the operation returns a value of `false`.

#### See also

`== (equality)`