no matches... anyone got a light?

[Scott Morrow]

This seems a no-brainer but I've stalled.  I'm reading names from a  
text file and then creating files based on these names.  I'd like to  
check and see if the file already exists before creating a new one.   
The text files were created in BBEdit.  I unable to figure out why I  
can't cause a match using my data.  I've looked at the variables in  
the debugger and even run charToNum comparisons ( everyone seems to  
be using the ascii 10 LF.)  But even though it seem like it should  
match... it don't.


  if tName is among the lines of tPreExisitingFiles then
       -- never gets here
  end if

alternately I tried

set the wholematches to true
if lineOffset(tName,tPreExisitingFiles) <> 0 then
       -- never gets here
end if

Anything else I should  check?


-Scott Morrow

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