What is the difference between = and ==?

Question

What is the difference between = and ==? I have found cases where the double equal sign will allow my script to run while one equal sign produces a

Answer 1

In the simplest of terms, take these two lines of code for example:

1) x = 10
2) x == 10

The first line (x = 10) means "I am commanding that x is equal to 10."

The second line (x == 10) means "I am asking the question, is x equal to 10?"

If you write "x == 10" first, it will give you an error message and tell you that x is not found.

If you write "x = 10," this will store x as 10.

After you have written "x = 10", then if you write "x == 10," it will respond "TRUE", as in "yes, x does equal 10, because you made x equal to 10." But if you write "x == 11" or "x == 12" or x == anything besides 10, then it will respond that "FALSE," as in "no, x does not equal 11 or 12 or anything besides 10, because you made x equal to 10."