JSP 2.0 Expression Language - Basic Comparisons
This example illustrates basic Expression Language comparisons.
The following comparison operators are supported:
- Less-than (< or lt)
- Greater-than (> or gt)
- Less-than-or-equal (<= or le)
- Greater-than-or-equal (>= or ge)
- Equal (== or eq)
- Not Equal (!= or ne)
Numeric
| EL Expression |
Result |
| ${1 < 2} |
true |
| ${1 lt 2} |
true |
| ${1 > (4/2)} |
false |
| ${1 gt (4/2)} |
false |
| ${4.0 >= 3} |
true |
| ${4.0 ge 3} |
true |
| ${4 <= 3} |
false |
| ${4 le 3} |
false |
| ${100.0 == 100} |
true |
| ${100.0 eq 100} |
true |
| ${(10*10) != 100} |
false |
| ${(10*10) ne 100} |
false |
Alphabetic
| EL Expression |
Result |
| ${'a' < 'b'} |
true |
| ${'hip' > 'hit'} |
false |
| ${'4' > 3} |
true |