Dave Watts wrote: >> <CFSET oldcompany = '033'> >> <CFSET newcompany = '0033'> >> >> How would one compare these as strings and get a NOT equal >> result rather then integers resulting in an equal result? >> > You could tack a non-numeric value to the end of each, and compare the > resultant strings. There may be a better, and/or more elegant way, that's > just off the top of my head.
I was considering that, but I felt sure there was a CF way to do this, finally found the right documentation page compare(). <CFSET aVal = '033'> <CFSET bVal = '0033'> <cfoutput> #aVal#:#bVal# #aVal EQ bVal# #aVal IS bVal# #compare(aVal,bVal)# </cfoutput> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:304355 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4