PowerShell equality operator not a symmetric relation?

Asked 2012-04-17T05:55:57.210

Can someone please explain to me why the equality operator in PowerShell is not a symmetric relation??

PS> "" -eq 0
False
PS> 0 -eq ""
True

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When you do "" -eq 0, it is same as "".equals(0) and it returns false.

0 -eq "" will try to convert "" to in and [int]"" is 0 and hence you get true.

answered 2012-04-17T06:17:36.330