I would think that honoring a reasonable order of operations when parsing would resolve this. The extraction operator should certainly be higher priority than comparison.
In fact, it works correctly in a BASIC program (UV 10.1.8). I compiled and ran the following: 0001: XX="" 0002: XX<1>=5 0003: XX<2>="X" 0004: IF XX<1>=5 THEN CRT "YES" ELSE CRT "NO" It returned "YES" as expected. If it suffered from the same affliction, it should have returned "NO" as (XX<1) is not >= 5. Therefore, it would seem that the parser for the I-Types is, as originally suggested, broken, or, more specifically, is not consistent with the BASIC compiler. I confess, however, that I have not verified the alleged I-type behavior on my system. Jerry Banker wrote: >I have to add that this is just the reason why I stress using spaces >between signs, variables, Boolean operators, and a liberal use of >parentheses. > > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Jerry Banker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 4:46 PM >>To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org >>Subject: RE: [U2] Universe 10.1 Itype possible parsing problem >> >>What it is doing is evaluating as: >>If @record is less than 3 is greater-than or equal to @record<6> then >> >> >1 > > >>else -1 >>Or >>In other words: >>If 0 is greater-than or equal to 20071217:224240 then 1 else -1 >> >> >> >>>-----Original Message----- >>>From: john reid [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 3:57 PM >>>To: list >>>Subject: [U2] Universe 10.1 Itype possible parsing problem >>> >>>In the following query, a file is listed with two identical itypes, >>>save for field 2 spacing, as shown below. Fields 3 and 6 are all >>> >>> >equal > > >>>in the query shown. >>> >>>The difference is that there is no space between the > and = . This >>>appears to yield wrong results, the bad one being shown as field 2 >>>(all minus ones) in the query. >>>Anyone seen this? >>>john >>> field 3 field 6 >>>1 -1 20071217:224240 20071217:224240 >>>1 -1 20071218:165115 20071218:165115 >>>1 -1 20071217:211056 20071217:211056 >>>1 -1 20071218:105346 20071218:105346 >>> >>>-- >>>IF @RECORD<3> = @RECORD<6> THEN "1" ELSE "-1" >>>IF @RECORD<3>= @RECORD<6> THEN "1" ELSE "-1" >>>john >>>------- >>>u2-users mailing list >>>u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org >>>To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ >>> >>> >>------- >>u2-users mailing list >>u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org >>To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ >> >> >------- >u2-users mailing list >u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org >To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ > > > > -- Geoffrey Mitchell Programmer/Analyst Home Decorator's Collection 314-684-1062 ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
