---
title: ComparisonResult
framework: foundation
role: symbol
role_heading: Enumeration
path: foundation/comparisonresult
---

# ComparisonResult

Constants that indicate sort order.

## Declaration

```swift
@frozen enum ComparisonResult
```

## Overview

Overview These constants are used to indicate how items in a request are ordered, from the first one given in a method invocation or function call to the last (that is, left to right in code).

## Topics

### Creating a comparison result

- [init(rawValue:)](foundation/comparisonresult/init(rawvalue:).md)

### Constants

- [ComparisonResult.orderedAscending](foundation/comparisonresult/orderedascending.md)
- [ComparisonResult.orderedSame](foundation/comparisonresult/orderedsame.md)
- [ComparisonResult.orderedDescending](foundation/comparisonresult/ordereddescending.md)

## Relationships

### Conforms To

- [BitwiseCopyable](swift/bitwisecopyable.md)
- [Copyable](swift/copyable.md)
- [Decodable](swift/decodable.md)
- [Encodable](swift/encodable.md)
- [Equatable](swift/equatable.md)
- [Escapable](swift/escapable.md)
- [Hashable](swift/hashable.md)
- [RawRepresentable](swift/rawrepresentable.md)
- [Sendable](swift/sendable.md)
- [SendableMetatype](swift/sendablemetatype.md)

## See Also

### Sorting

- [NSSortDescriptor](foundation/nssortdescriptor.md)
- [SortDescriptor](foundation/sortdescriptor.md)
- [SortComparator](foundation/sortcomparator.md)
- [ComparableComparator](foundation/comparablecomparator.md)
- [KeyPathComparator](foundation/keypathcomparator.md)
- [SortOrder](foundation/sortorder.md)