try removing whitespace from the ends
text = text.trim()
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Dan Milon <danmi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> for me, text is "exit\n"
> I guess you are on windows, so text is "exit\r\n"
>
> The readline module might help you.
>
>
> On 08/02/2012 04:15 PM, Danil Gazizov wrote:
>>
>> I'm confused of how to compare string const with variable.
>> Look at this simple example where keyboard input compares with const
>> string.
>> I suggest this is encoding problem. Please, tell me what should be done to
>> exit process ?
>> File encoding is utf8
>>
>> process.stdin.setEncoding();//default is utf-8
>> process.stdin.resume();
>> process.stdin.on("data", function(text) {
>>
>> //shows entered length=*6*
>>
>> console.log('entered length=' + text.length);
>>
>> //shows compare length=*4*
>>
>> console.log('compare length=' + 'exit'.length);
>>
>> if (text == 'exit'){
>> //never works
>> console.log('matched!');
>> }
>> });
>>
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