No, `===` is for comparing _objects_, as Dave said.  :-)

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Rick Faircloth <r...@whitestonemedia.com>wrote:

>
> I'm not entirely sure about the "===" operator, but it's working.
> My understanding from what I've read is that the "===" operator
> should be used only when comparing strings.  Is that not correct?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Watts [mailto:dwa...@figleaf.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2011 1:39 PM
> To: cf-talk
> Subject: Re: Shouldn't these statements work?
>
>
> > if  (  activeLinkID === 'search_properties' && currentPage ===
> 'index.cfm'
>
> As everyone's already mentioned, this comparison operator is not an
> equality operator. It's an identity operator - it's used to see if two
> object references point to the same object. A literal string won't
> work here, as it's not the same object as the object to which you're
> comparing it.
>
> Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
> http://www.figleaf.com/
> http://training.figleaf.com/
>
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