Comparison operators compares two values and return a boolean value. equality operators are also comparison operator which checks the equality of values and returns boolean.
in javascript(ES6), There are four(4) which are listed below.
- Using ‘==’ operator
- Using ‘===’ operator
- SameValueZero: used mainly in sets, maps and arrays.
- SameValue: used elsewhere
which operation you choose depend on the type of comparison you are looking to perform.
- double equals (==) will perform a type conversion when comparing two things, and will handle NaN, -0, and +0 specially to conform to IEEE 754 (so NaN != NaN, and -0 == +0);
- triple equals (===) will do the same comparison as double equals (including the special handling for NaN, -0, and +0) but without type conversion; if the types differ, false is returned.
- Object.is does no type conversion and no special handling for NaN, -0, and +0 (giving it the same behavior as === except on those special numeric values).
Strict equality using ('===')
- strict equality compares two values for equality .
- neither values is implicitly converted to some other value before beign compared.
- if values have different types , the values are considered unequal. if the value have the same type , are not numbers and have the same value, they are cosidered equal.
- if both values are numbers, they are considere equal if they are both not NaN and are same value, or if one is +0 and one is -0.
- a values is only equal to itself for all values except number.
- for numbers it is +0===-0. is true
- the only case in which (x!==x) is true is when x is NaN.
Loose Equality using (" == ")
- loos equality compares two values for equality after converting both values to a common type(one or both sides may undergo conversion).
- after conversion , the final equality comparison is performed exactly as === performs it.
- A==B always has identical semantics to (B==A) for any values of A and B .
- undefined and nurll are loosely equal; that is , ( undefined == null) is true. and
- (null == undefined ) is also true. example below
Same-value Equality
- it checks weather two values are functionally identical in all contexts.
- one instance occurs when an attempt to mutate un immutable object property is made.
- this equality is provided with (object.defineProperty())and (Object.is()) methods.
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