A string doesn't equal itself

Ken Ray kray at sonsothunder.com
Mon Apr 9 02:00:24 EDT 2007


On Sun, 8 Apr 2007 22:16:32 -0700, Mark Wieder wrote:

> string that represented a serial number she allowed the engine to
> process the equality operator numerically. And gave it values beyond
> those it could be expected to handle with a default margin of error.

Actually, Mark, this was her post:

>  put "09114E715806" = "09114E715806"

So she *did* quote it. I'd agree with you if it weren't quoted, but as 
it was, I would expect this to be interpreted as a string and not a 
number.

Just my 2 cents,

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/



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