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Relational Operator

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An operator that compares two values.

For example, the expression

x

means x is less than 5. This expression will have a value of TRUE if the variablex is less than 5; otherwise the value of the expression will be FALSE.

Relational operators are sometimes called comparison operators. Expressions that contain relational operators are called relational expressions.