Forcing string comparisons, or When is "0" not 0?

Dr. Hawkins dochawk at gmail.com
Wed Oct 14 21:08:49 EDT 2015


On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 2:10 PM, Devin Asay <devin_asay at byu.edu> wrote:

> I'll have to explain to them that “LiveCode tries its hardest to make
> something into a number if there is any chance at all that it could be a
> number, so we have to do an extra check to make sure it’s not this specific
> type of numeric expression that happens to end with a dot.”


Now if you can find a way to coerce logicals to number with intrinsics,
I'll be *real* interested . . .


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