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2. Re: Valid command form?

• Posted by Irv Mullins <irv at ELLIJAY.COM> Jan 10, 2000
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On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, you wrote:
> is command valid/supported: "if equal(s[1],"r")=0 then ..."? Its the ONLY
> way i can get the evaluation performed.  Any help would be greatly
> appreciated.  thanks

1. If you are interested in seeing if a single character equals another single
character, you should write it as a single character: 'r' See code below.

2. You wrote: if equal(s[1],"r")=0 then puts(1,"2EQ ") ....
This means "if s[1] equals "r" is false then puts ("Equal")" which is probably
not what you want. Try losing the =0

-- Tested code:
object ws
sequence s    --s can be variable length (1 to 3 bytes)
s="r" puts(1,s) puts(1,"      :  ")
if equal(s,"r") then puts(1,"1EQ ") else puts(1,"1NQ ") end if
puts(1,'\n')

s="r"  puts(1,s) puts(1,"      :  ")
if equal(s[1],'r') then puts(1,"2EQ ") else puts(1,"2NQ ") end if
if compare(s[1],'r')=0 then puts(1,"2EQ ") else puts(1,"2NQ ") end if
if equal(s[1],'r') then puts(1,"2EQ ") else puts(1,"2NQ ") end if
puts(1,'\n')

s="r1g" puts(1,s) puts(1,"  :  ")
if equal(s[1],'r') then puts(1,"3EQ ") else puts(1,"3NQ ") end if    if
compare(s[1],'r')=0 then puts(1,"3EQ ") else puts(1,"3NQ ") end if
if equal(s[1],'r') then puts(1,"3EQ ") else puts(1,"3NQ ") end if
puts(1,'\n')

s="r1g" puts(1,s) puts(1,"  :  ")
if length(s)>1 then ws=s[1] else ws=s end if
if equal(ws,'r') then puts(1,"4EQ ") else puts(1,"4NQ ") end if
if compare(ws,'r')=0 then puts(1,"4EQ ") else puts(1,"4NQ ") end if
if equal(ws,'r') then puts(1,"4EQ ") else puts(1,"4NQ ") end if

-- RESULTS:
r      :  1EQ
r      :  2EQ 2EQ 2EQ
r1g  :  3EQ 3EQ 3EQ
r1g  :  4EQ 4EQ 4EQ

Irv