Yeah I have to kinda agree with Phil here, typless or not.

I mean, if you put quotes around something don't you hope it's a string?  (eg. it 
'guessed' wrong)

- J


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Evans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, 21 May 2004 4:40 PM
> To: CFAussie Mailing List
> Subject: [cfaussie] Re: What the???
> 
> 
> Weird eh!
> 
> We came across this when populating a select box. We were 
> comparing "00"
> against a query that returned both "00" and "NO", and obviously both
> matched.
> They are supposed to be financial classifications, not true / 
> false values!
> 
> We've coded around it, but it is a feature I would have 
> preferred to be not
> included.
> 
> Thanks all for responses.
> 
> Phil.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Vaughan Allan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "CFAussie Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 4:10 PM
> Subject: [cfaussie] Re: What the???
> 
> 
> > <CFOUTPUT>
> > <CFIF (0 eq "00") and (0 eq false) and (false eq "00") and 
> (1 eq "1") and
> > ("yes" eq "1") and ("1" eq true) and ("yes" eq true)>
> >         Weird eh?
> > </CFIF>
> > </CFOUTPUT>
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 
> 21/05/2004 04:02:29 PM:
> >
> > > On CFMX 6.1, windows...
> > >
> > > <cfif "00" eq "no">
> > >      What the???
> > > <cfelse>
> > >      What I expect
> > > </cfif>
> > >
> > > I get what the???
> > >
> > > Can anyone explain?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Phil.
> > >
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