A string doesn't equal itself

Mark Smith mark at maseurope.net
Mon Apr 9 05:26:24 EDT 2007


And just for completeness, this also return false:

put "09114E715806" is "09114E715806" (I wondered if 'is' instead of  
'=' might produce a different result).


Best,

Mark


On 9 Apr 2007, at 07:00, Ken Ray wrote:

> 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.
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