This is disturbing!

Richmond Mathewson richmondmathewson at gmail.com
Thu Sep 6 16:07:10 EDT 2018


I wonder is the reason "6" and "6." are treated as the same is because 
"6." is read as "6.0"?

Late to the party, I know . . .

Richmond.

On 6/9/2018 10:34 pm, Jim Lambert via use-livecode wrote:
>> Did anyone know that "6. " is equal to "6."???
> It’s somewhat similar to
> 	value(“h “) is equal to value(“h”),
> while
> 	“h “ is not equal to “h”.
>
> I’m not disturbed but appreciative that the engine tries to convert both sides to numbers when doing a comparison. Just must remember that and use more “string-y” ways to compare strings as only strings.
> For example other functions can reveal the strings “6. “ and “6.” are not the same string, such as length(“6. “) is not equal to length( “6.”).
>
> Jim Lambert
>
>
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