Short for less than or equal to, le is an operator also represented as “<=” that is used in programming, with some commands, and in mathematics.

if ($value1 le $value2) { do this; }

In the above example, if value1 is less than or equal to value2, it would perform the operation do this. Otherwise, it would continue through the program.

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