This is disturbing!

[Richmond Mathewson]

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."???
> Its somewhat similar to
> 	value(h ) is equal to value(h),
> while
> 	h  is not equal to h.
>
> Im 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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