This is disturbing!

[Bob Sneidar]

There is already a string keyword. 

Bob S


> On Sep 6, 2018, at 21:53 , Jim Lambert via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> RichardG wrote:
>> Any suggestions for a new operator token to specify numeric equivalence?
> 
> Or maybe to specify string equivalence.
> 
>> Did anyone know that "6. " is equal to "6."???
> 
> 	string( "6. “) is not equal to string( "6.”)
> 
> where the function string() would tell LC not to try to convert the string into a number, but simply leave it as a literal string for comparison purposes.
> 
> Of course, another way to prevent LC from converting a textual number into an actual number is to append a string to the textual number:
> 
> whereas  "6. “  =  "6.”   returns TRUE
> "6. “ & “a” =  "6.” & “a”  returns FALSE.
> 
> Jim Lambert