Here we go again,let's clean up this mess.
So....we have 2 types equality operators
== called equality operator
=== called identity operator
Most important to remember is that equality and identity operators are checks is both value are equals ,but identity operator checks more strictly (without using autoconversion so it means both value need to be of the same type (except NaN)
Equality operator checks
- for strings, numbers and booleans
both variable are equal (after automatic conversion)in terms of value .
For example
1 == "1" will return true
1 == true will return true (Because boolean can represent true as 1 an false as 0)
For example
1 == "1" will return true
1 == true will return true (Because boolean can represent true as 1 an false as 0)
- For arrays and object
are equality operator checks both variable are equal (after automatic conversion)in terms of reference
(It means checking do they refer to the same array or object,so i)
Identity operator checks
- not only values as Equality, doesn't use automatic conversion ,so both values have the same value and the same type (if not are not equal) ,so
which cause that results are different in some cases (in comaparison to equality operator)
1 === "1" returns false (diffrenet type)
null === null ( returns true) and undefined === undefined ( returns true) BUT null === undefined (returns .... false (???))
even better because NaN is not equal to NaN
In equals and identity operatos are not identical if they refer to different array or objects (even if both contain the same elements
So remember:
= means "assign to"
== means "equal to"
=== means "identical to"
1 ==/=== "1" will return true for equality operator and return false for identity operator because comparison has different type (it applied to 1 == true as well )
NaN is always not equal to NaN for equality operator and identity operator but null ==/=== undefined will return true for equality operator and return false for identity operator
and on end remember that:
for =x = 5
means 5 is assign to variable x
for ==
x == 5
means 5 is equal to x (return will answer on question "Is 5 is equal to x?")
for ===
x === 5
means 5 is identical to x (return will answer on question "Is 5 is identical to x?")
If your comparison doesn't work in Java then can be 3 cases:
1) you mispell something in your code
2) you forgot about one of rule written in this post (about difference between == and === and result which will return
3) you forgot about difference between null undefined and NaN (null and undefined issues are explained in previous note
*Javascript is like other languages with some freaks or i usually said that javascript is a language created by Monty Python.
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