Availability
Flash Player 4.

Flash 4 file:

 x <= y 

Converted Flash 5 file:

 Number(x) <= Number(y) 

Usage

 expression1   <=   expression2 

Parameters
expression1,expression2 A number or string.

Returns
Nothing.

Description
Operator (comparison); compares two expressions and determines whether expression1 is less than or equal to expression2 ; if it is, the operator returns true . If expression1 is greater than expression2 , the operator returns false . String expressions are evaluated using alphabetical order; all capital letters come before lowercase letters.

In Flash 5, the less than or equal to ( <= ) operator is a comparison operator capable of handling various data types. In Flash 4, <= is a numeric operator. Flash 4 files brought into the Flash 5 authoring environment undergo a conversion process to maintain data type integrity. The following illustrates the conversion of a Flash 4 file containing a numeric quality comparison.

Example
The following examples illustrate true and false results for both numeric and string comparisons:

5 <= 10;
// true

2 <= 2;
// true

10 <= 3;
// false

"Allen" <= "Jack";
// true

"Jack" <= "Allen";
// false

"11" <= "3";
//true

"11" <= 3;
// numeric comparison
// false

"C" <= "abc";
// false

"A" <= "a";
// true