Thierry Douez wrote:
> on mouseUp
> local userTyping = 5
> local myVeryStrongPassword = "005"
> if matchText( userTyping, myVeryStrongPassword) then
> answer "Great!"
> else
> answer "Too bad :( try again.."
> put "005" into userTyping
> if matchText( userTyping, myVeryStrongPassword) then answer "Great!"
> end if
> end mouseUp
I would caution against using matchText for this purpose, because the second
parameter is treated by the function as a regular expression.
For instance, matchText would return true if you were to reverse your example
values:
local userTyping = "005"
local myVeryStrongPassword = 5
This is because 005 does indeed contain 5.
In addition, since passwords are typically allowed to contain any character,
including those that have special meaning in regular expressions, something
like this would also return true:
local userTyping = "5"
local myVeryStrongPassword = "^5$"
With this in mind, I would go with the method of first checking the length
followed by the values as suggested by a couple of previous posters.
Since Ralph is looking to use this for password validation, I would throw in a
case sensitivity check as well:
on mouseUp
put stringsAreEqual("005", "5")
end mouseUp
function stringsAreEqual pString1, pString2
set the caseSensitive to true
if (len(pString1) = len(pString2)) and (pString1 = pString2) then
return true
end if
return false
end stringsAreEqual
Hope this helps!
Lyn
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