> I have a very irritating problem occurring. In one part of my program a > global variable, g_region, is set to the name of a US state or Canadian > province. Later in the program there is a loop that compares the 17th > element of the line to g_region. If g_region and element 17 of the line are > the same, the program does something. Using the variable watcher, I can see > that g_region is set to a states name, and I can see that the 17th element > of the line is the same state as g_region. But the loop doesn't acknowledge > that the two are equivalent. I have tried : > > "repeat for each line regLine in lData > if item 17 of regLine = g_reg then //and I've tried "is" in place of the > equals sign, too. > put item 17 of regLine into regFiltered > end if > end repeat"
I have had problems with this sort of thing if there are any extra spaces in the data. Try: if item 17 of regLine contains g_reg then .... Cheers, Sarah _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution