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RE: atoms, grrrrrr

• Posted by Brian Broker <bkb at cnw.com> Feb 21, 2001
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Kat,

What I usually do in a case like this is either trace it or just put the 
following before the test:

? at1
? s1
if at1 < length( s1 ) then...

That should provide enough insight to solve your problem.

-- Brian

Kat wrote:
> On 21 Feb 2001, at 11:49, Euman wrote:
> 
> > You never assigned a value to at1 before you
> > asked it whether it was less than another value
> 
> Peoples, i did provide the values, as printed out in ex.err, they had 
> values.
> 
> On 21 Feb 2001, at 13:40, Ted Fines wrote:
> 
> > The following code works, and should output a 5 and then a 3, if the 
> > variables are left unchanged.  misc.e is included for the sleep() 
> > function.
> > 
> > length(s) gets evaluated twice in the code and both times works.  Even 
> > if 
> > you set s="", it still functions properly.
> > 
> > If I were you, I'd add these four lines before my comparison of the 
> > integer 
> > and length(s)...
> > puts(1,sprintf("%d\n",length(s)))
> > for c=1 to length(s) do
> >     puts(1,"s[" & sprintf("%d",c) & "]=" & s[c] & "\n")
> > end for
> > ...just so you can see if s is what you think it is.
> 
> And it is what i thought it is, as i assigned them and as printed out in 
> ex.err.
> 
> On 21 Feb 2001, at 11:49, Brian Broker wrote:
> 
> > Kat,
> > 
> > You have not provided enough info...  Perhaps you could send a snippet 
> > of actual code that produces the same error.  The following program 
> > works great:
> 
> I did, it's:
> 
> if at1 < length( s1 )
> 
> > sequence s1
> > integer at1
> > 
> > -- first define at1, and s1
> > at1 = 3
> > -- data:
> > --s1={116't',104'h',101'e'},{99'c',97'a',116't'}{97'a',116't',101'e'},
> > --{98'b',105'i',103'g'},{100'd',105'i',110'n',110'n',101'e',114'r'}}
> > s1 = { "the", "cat", "ate", "big", "dinner" }
> 
> That is how i defined it, the line just above is what ex.err printed 
> out, which is the 
> same thing and correct, right?
> 
> > 
> > if at1 < length( s1 ) then
> >   puts( 1, "at1 < length(s1)" )
> > else
> >   puts( 1, "at1 > length(s1)" )
> > end if
> 
> So why is the code you wrote, which is exactly the code i put into this 
> other program, 
> working by itself, and not in the program? The boolean test line is the 
> same, and the 
> vars are the same.
> 
> Kat
> 
>