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Neil Smyth has over 25 years of experience in the IT industry, including roles in software development and enterprise-level UNIX and Linux system administration. In addition to a bachelor's degree in information technology, he also holds A+, Security+, Network+, Project+, and Microsoft Certified Professional certifications and is a CIW Database Design Specialist. Neil is the co-founder and CEO of Payload Media, Inc. (a technical content publishing company), and the author of the Essentials range of programming and system administration books.
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13.6 Equality Operators

Kotlin also includes a set of logical operators useful for performing comparisons. These operators all return a Boolean result depending on the result of the comparison. These operators are binary operators in that they work with two operands.

Equality operators are most frequently used in constructing program flow control logic. For example an if statement may be constructed based on whether one value matches another:

if x == y {

      // Perform task

}

The result of a comparison may also be stored in a Boolean variable. For example, the following code will result in a true value being stored in the variable result:

var result: Bool

val x = 10

val y = 20

 

result = x < y

Clearly 10 is less than 20, resulting in a true evaluation of the x < y expression. The following table lists the full set of Kotlin comparison operators:

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Neil Smyth has over 25 years of experience in the IT industry, including roles in software development and enterprise-level UNIX and Linux system administration. In addition to a bachelor's degree in information technology, he also holds A+, Security+, Network+, Project+, and Microsoft Certified Professional certifications and is a CIW Database Design Specialist. Neil is the co-founder and CEO of Payload Media, Inc. (a technical content publishing company), and the author of the Essentials range of programming and system administration books.
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