Tag: not equal to

Equal to v/s Strictly Equal to

What’s the difference between equal to v/s strictly equal to and not equal to v/s strictly not equal to in any programming language?

This seems to be confusing at first, but if we execute a small example things get very clear about the working of these operators.

strictly-not-equal-to

== is called equal to operator.
!= is called not-equal to operator.
=== is called strictly equal to operator.
!== is called strictly not-equal to operator.

In this video tutorial we shall see the differences between == v/s === and != v/s !===

Difference between != v/s !=== and == v/s ===



YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql5cS8DntwQ [Watch the Video In Full Screen.]



$a = 1;
$b = '1';

Lets assign integer 1 to variable a and string ‘1’ to variable b.

Equal-to v/s Strictly Equal-to

$a == $b
true
 
$a === $b
false

== operator doesn’t consider the type of variable strictly, thus returns true even though we are comparing a string with an integer. But === operator considers the type of the variable strictly and treats integer and string as two different things and hence returns false.

Not Equal-to v/s Strictly Not Equal-to

$a != $b
false
 
$a !== $b
true

Similarly, as != operator doesn’t take variable type into strict consideration it thinks $a and $b as equals, hence returns false, but !== returns true as it reads integer and string variables as different.

Comparison Operators: MongoDB

In this video tutorial we shall illustrate the use of comparison operators in MongoDB.

Comparison Operators
$all
$in
$nin – not in
$ne – not equal to
$gt – greater than
$gte – greater than or equal to
$lt – less than
$lte – less than or equal to

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JavaScript file
load.js – in path: C:/test/load.js

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db.person.insert({
name   : 'Satish',
age    : 25,
skills : ['nodejs', 'mongoDB', 'HTML5']
});
 
db.person.insert({
name   : 'Kiran',
age    : 27,
skills : ['PHP', 'mySQL', 'HTML5']
});
 
db.person.insert({
name   : 'Sunitha',
age    : 24,
skills : ['html', 'ASP']
});
 
db.person.insert({
name   : 'Jyothi',
age    : 23,
skills : ['html', 'ASP']
});
 
db.person.insert({
name   : 'Varsha',
age    : 30,
skills : ['.NET', 'Java']
});
 
db.person.insert({
name   : 'Amogh',
age    : 29,
skills : ['C#', 'ASP']
});

This JavaScript file contains some simple data, to be inserted into MongoDB server.
It contains, persons name, age and skills(in array form)
person is the collection name, we’re creating.

From our previous day video tutorial we already know, how to, Load Data From External JavaScript File: MongoDB.

load script to new database

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C:\mongodb>cd bin
 
C:\mongodb\bin>mongo 127.0.0.1/satish C:/temp/load.js
MongoDB shell version: 2.4.3
connecting to: 127.0.0.1/satish
 
C:\mongodb\bin>mongo
MongoDB shell version: 2.4.3
connecting to: test

Once these data/documents are loaded into new database, we start operating on this data using comparison operator.

Documents In person Collection

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> db.person.find().forEach(printjson)
{
        "_id" : ObjectId("518c76ba05ea2a1d2b3b33a0"),
        "name" : "Satish",
        "age" : 25,
        "skills" : [
                "nodejs",
                "mongoDB",
                "HTML5"
        ]
}
{
        "_id" : ObjectId("518c76ba05ea2a1d2b3b33a1"),
        "name" : "Kiran",
        "age" : 27,
        "skills" : [
                "PHP",
                "mySQL",
                "HTML5"
        ]
}
{
        "_id" : ObjectId("518c76ba05ea2a1d2b3b33a2"),
        "name" : "Sunitha",
        "age" : 24,
        "skills" : [
                "html",
                "ASP"
        ]
}
{
        "_id" : ObjectId("518c76ba05ea2a1d2b3b33a3"),
        "name" : "Jyothi",
        "age" : 23,
        "skills" : [
                "html",
                "ASP"
        ]
}
{
        "_id" : ObjectId("518c76ba05ea2a1d2b3b33a4"),
        "name" : "Varsha",
        "age" : 30,
        "skills" : [
                ".NET",
                "Java"
        ]
}
{
        "_id" : ObjectId("518c76ba05ea2a1d2b3b33a5"),
        "name" : "Amogh",
        "age" : 29,
        "skills" : [
                "C#",
                "ASP"
        ]
}

Comparison Operators: MongoDB



YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=937PSHo7F00 [Watch the Video In Full Screen.]



Switch to new database, ‘satish’

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> show dbs
admin   0.203125GB
company 0.203125GB
local   0.078125GB
satish  0.203125GB
> use satish
switched to db satish

$all operator

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> db.person.find({skills: { $all: ['html', 'css'] }}, {name: 1, _id: 0});
> db.person.find({skills: { $all: ['html', 'ASP'] }}, {name: 1, _id: 0});
{ "name" : "Sunitha" }
{ "name" : "Jyothi" }

Matches arrays that contain all elements specified in the query.

$in operator

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> db.person.find({skills: { $in: ['html', 'css'] }}, {name: 1, _id: 0});
{ "name" : "Sunitha" }
{ "name" : "Jyothi" }
> db.person.find({skills: { $in: ['java', 'css'] }}, {name: 1, _id: 0});
> db.person.find({skills: { $in: ['Java', 'css'] }}, {name: 1, _id: 0});
{ "name" : "Varsha" }

Matches any of the values that exist in an array specified in the query.

$nin operator: not in

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> db.person.find({skills: { $nin: ['Java', 'css'] }}, {name: 1, _id: 0});
{ "name" : "Satish" }
{ "name" : "Kiran" }
{ "name" : "Sunitha" }
{ "name" : "Jyothi" }
{ "name" : "Amogh" }
> db.person.find({skills: { $nin: ['Java', 'ASP'] }}, {name: 1, _id: 0});
{ "name" : "Satish" }
{ "name" : "Kiran" }

Matches values that do not exist in an array specified to the query.

$gt operator

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> db.person.find({age: { $gt: 25 }}, {name: 1, _id: 0});
{ "name" : "Kiran" }
{ "name" : "Varsha" }
{ "name" : "Amogh" }

Matches values that are greater than the value specified in the query.

$gte operator

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> db.person.find({age: { $gte: 25 }}, {name: 1, _id: 0});
{ "name" : "Satish" }
{ "name" : "Kiran" }
{ "name" : "Varsha" }
{ "name" : "Amogh" }

Matches values that are equal to or greater than the value specified in the query.

Combining multiple operators: $gt, $gte and $lt operator

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> db.person.find({age: { $gte: 25, $lt: 29 }}, {name: 1, _id: 0});
{ "name" : "Satish" }
{ "name" : "Kiran" }
> db.person.find({age: { $gt: 25, $lt: 29 }}, {name: 1, _id: 0});
{ "name" : "Kiran" }
> db.person.find({age: { $gt: 25, $lte: 29 }}, {name: 1, _id: 0});
{ "name" : "Kiran" }
{ "name" : "Amogh" }

$lt – less than – Matches vales that are less than the value specified in the query.
$lte – less than or equal to – Matches values that are less than or equal to the value specified in the query.

$ne operator

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> db.person.find({age: {$ne: 25}}, {name: 1, _id: 0});
{ "name" : "Kiran" }
{ "name" : "Sunitha" }
{ "name" : "Jyothi" }
{ "name" : "Varsha" }
{ "name" : "Amogh" }

Matches all values that are not equal to the value specified in the query.

Note:
Operators are useful when we do not know the exact value to be extracted or to fetch a range of values.
All mongoDB operators begin with $ sign.