# le (less than or equal to — string specific)

#### Availability

Flash Player 4. This operator has been deprecated in Flash 5 in favor of the `<= (less than or equal to)``` operator.

#### Usage

    expression1 le expression2

#### Parameters

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

#### Returns

Nothing.

#### Description

Operator (comparison); compares `expression1` to `expression2` and returns a value of `true` if `expression1` is less than or equal to `expression2`; otherwise, it returns a `false` value.

#### See also

`<= (less than or equal to)`