!=true == false? :)

[regbolD]

maybe a stupid question, but i will still ask :P

if i have a boolean and if i say if (something != true), is this the same as saying if (something == false) ?

at first i thought yes, but i am not so sure anymore

[neznein9]

Conditionals will break everything into boolean values so:

//  these are all true statements
true == true
false == false
true != false

//  these are all false statements
true == false
true != true
false != false 

So yes - saying something "is not True" is the same as saying it "is false"

[pseudobot]

Not exactly. Here's an example:

varA = "true"
varB = "b"

if (varA == true) {
trace(varA); //returns "true"
}
if (varB != true) {
trace(varB); //returns "b", becacuse even though it is not true and not false,         
                 //the statement is still correct, because "b" IS NOT  true
} 

[neznein9]

Those are both strings - which get evaluated to 'true' if they have ANY value in them - Flash doesn't care what that value is...

var s:String = "false";
var b:Boolean = Boolean(s);
trace(s, b);    //  false  true 

[regbolD]

so if i dont even declare something as boolean and just say in my code somewhere that: something = true;

an then later ask:

if (something != true)

is the same as saying?

if (something == false)

so basically does this mean that whenever i just mention true or false boolean is implied?

[neznein9]

Whenever you use if (or any other conditional operator) everything will get cast to Boolean - so in your example (assuming 'something' is in the same scope as your if statement) that should work fine. You can even do away with the comparison altogether:

if(something){}
if(!something){}