Weird string comparison problem...

[Mark Schonewille]

Paul,

Because in the last line you're writing tExpectedSouceName instead of tExpectedSourceName. An "r" is missing.

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On 27 nov 2012, at 21:07, Paul Dupuis wrote:

> Using LC 5.0.2, I have a really weird string comparison error occurring.
> 
> The following code:
>      put length(tActualSourceName),length(tExpectedSourceName)&cr after msg
>      repeat with i=1 to the number of characters in tActualSourceName
>        if char i of tActualSourceName is not char i of
> tExpectedSourceName then
>          put i,char i of tActualSourceName,"<>",char i of
> tExpectedSourceName&cr after msg
>        else
>          put i,char i of tActualSourceName,"==",char i of
> tExpectedSourceName&cr after msg
>        end if
>      end repeat
>      put (tActualSourceName = tExpectedSouceName) after msg
> 
> Produces the following message window output:
> 13,13
> 1,l,==,l
> 2,a,==,a
> 3,t,==,t
> 4,i,==,i
> 5,n,==,n
> 6,t,==,t
> 7,e,==,e
> 8,x,==,x
> 9,t,==,t
> 10,.,==,.
> 11,r,==,r
> 12,t,==,t
> 13,f,==,f
> false
> 
> So, if the strings are the same length and every character tests equal,
> then how come the strings do not equal one another??? Anybody have any
> idea???
> And, yes, I did try "is" insread of "=" and "<>" instead of "is not" and
> since the operators should be interchangeable, it made no difference.