Compare numeric strings with leading zeros

[Peter Bogdanoff]

How about comparing as an array?

From the LC Dictionary definition for “is":

When comparing arrays, the = operator first checks if the number of elements in each array is the same, if not the two arrays are different. If the arrays have the same number of elements, they are equal if each element is equal. Specifically this means:

array1 = array2 if (and only if):
  - the number of elements of array1 = the number of elements of array2 and
  - for each element e in array1, array1[e] = array2[e].

I haven’t tried it and you may run into the same problem.

Peter Bogdanoff


On Sep 2, 2015, at 7:40 PM, Terry Judd <terry.judd at unimelb.edu.au> wrote:

> Can you add a non-numeric character in front of each before you do the
> comparison?
> 
> Terry...
> 
> On 3/09/2015 12:33 pm, "use-livecode on behalf of Ralph DiMola"
> <use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com on behalf of
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> 
>> Feeling pretty clueless here but...
>> 
>> I need ("5" = "005") to be false. This is for password validation.
>> 
>> Ralph DiMola
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