PowerShell equality operator not a symmetric relation?

Question

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
         


        

Answer 1

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.