Re: comparing two identical strings
Re: comparing two identical strings
- Subject: Re: comparing two identical strings
- From: John W Baxter <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 12:36:15 -0800
At 20:48 -0800 2/2/2002, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
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On 2/2/02 8:31 PM, "email@hidden" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> I'm a newbie with Applescript, and could use some help figuring out what
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> Applescript doesn't like about the way I'm comparing variables.
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> I've got 2 strings which are areacodes of a phone #:
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> "display dialog x" yields:
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> 703
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> and "display dialog y" yields:
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> 703
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> I need to compare them and see if they are equal. If I do a:
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> if x = y then
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> display dialog "They're equal!"
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> end if
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> nothing happens. Do I need to convert these variables into something
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> do this testing?
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Nowhere have you told us what the two strings are. What is x and what is y?
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Never mind the display dialogs. If x = 703, that's not actually a string,
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although display dialog may coerce it to one. Is
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x = 703
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y = "703"
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perhaps? Then they're not equal.
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But (x as string) = (y as string)
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will be true. But it could be a completely different problem.
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Don't you think you'd better let us in on the secret and show us the part of
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the code that defines x and y before asking us why they're not equal?
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Fair's fair.
Aside from verifying what classes x and y are, we should look for spurious
spaces, etc.
Does count of x = count of y? (We don't care about relative speed of ways
to get length, here.)
Or...try display dialog "[" & x & "]" and the same for y. Any clues?
--John
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John Baxter email@hidden Port Ludlow, WA, USA