I’ve been searching high and low for official documentation about the <> operator in Bubble.io. I understand from various forum threads (like [[this one](https://Hi everyone, I’ve been searching high and low for official documentation about the <> operator in Bubble.io. I understand from various forum threads (like this one and this one) that the <> operator is equivalent to != or “is not.” However, I couldn’t find any reference to this in Bubble’s official documentation. For example, the Operations and Comparisons section of the manual has no mention of the <> operator. This leaves me wondering: Is the <> operator officially supported and documented anywhere? Where are the helpful forum contributors finding their information about this operator? If anyone can point me to the official documentation or explain why this isn’t mentioned in the manual, I’d really appreciate it.)] and [this one]) that the <> operator is equivalent to != or “is not.” However, I couldn’t find any reference to this in Bubble’s official documentation.
For example, the [Operations and Comparisons] section of the manual has no mention of the <> operator. This leaves me wondering:
Where are the helpful forum contributors finding their information about this operator?
If anyone can point me to the official documentation or explain why this isn’t mentioned in the manual, I’d really appreciate it.
Didn’t you post this exact same question yesterday under a different account?
Or was that someone else, and you’re just copying their question?
In any case <> is a historic programming convention meaning ‘not equal to’ - although it’s largely outdated and has been replaced with != which is now the more commonly used symbol.
But, for whatever reason, Bubble uses <>
If you already know what it means, then what does it matter if it’s not in the Manual?
Well, given that it’s the standard operator used in the editor, then you can safely assume it’s officially supported - although, admittedly, the seemingly arbitrary different usage of <> and is not to mean the same thing is an interesting UX/design choice by Bubble. (there are a number of other similar inconsistencies in the Bubble editor’s language which no doubt confuse new users).
