No one seems to have answered the underlying question to this thread. Why doesn't IF "0" = "00" THEN ... treat the two items as unequal as they are strings.
The answer to this comes from the language definition. The Basic language is effectively typeless though it is more correct to say that it is type variant. Variables can change type from one moment to the next. The relational operators (=, #, <, >, <=, >=) look at the two items being compared. If both can be treated as numbers (as in this example), they perform a numeric comparison. If one or both cannot be treated as numbers, both are converted to strings and then compared character by character from the left end. Thus 99 > 100 will return false regardless of whether the items are quoted. wherease "99A" > 100 will return true. There are many ways to force a string comparison. The generally recommended one is to use the COMPARE() function. Martin Phillips Ladybridge Systems 17b Coldstream Lane, Hardingstone, Northampton NN4 6DB +44-(0)1604-709200 ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
