<, <=, >=, >

Compare two numbers using less-than, less-than-or-equal-to, greater-than, or greater-than-or-equal-to tests.

Syntax

< rval
<= rval
>= rval
> rval

Options

rval

Optional initial value to be compared to values received via the left inlet. See comments for acceptable types.

Inlets

param1

The left inlet. Any value received via this inlet is compared to the value in the right inlet param2, and the result is sent via the outlet result.

Type: Changeable

param2

The right inlet. The value is stored for comparison to any subsequent values received in the left inlet param1.

Type: Changeable

Outlets

result

For scalar inputs, returns true if the values satisfy the comparison, false if not.See comments for behavior with audio-sample inputs.

Type: Boolean or Samples

Comments

The comparison operators accept inputs and initialization arguments of any numeric type (Integers, Floats, Doubles, Complex and DoubleComplex). For scalar input, the operators return a true or false value.

If one of the arguments is an audio-sample type and the other is a numeric type, the comparison operators return a stream of audio-samples whose values are either 1 or 0 depending on whether the corresponding input sample satisfies the comparison with the numerical argument. The comparison operators do not support both arguments as audio-sample types.

These operators output a result whever a new value is received via the left inlet param1, using the new value of param1 and the most recent value of param2, or the optional initial argument if no value has yet been received for param2. If you want to wait until both param1 and param2 receive new input values before computing a result, use the synchronous comparison operators instead.

See Also

==, !=

'<, '<=, '>=, '>

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