[jawsscripts] Re: testing 2 strings for equality

  • From: Jackie McBride <abletec@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 07:50:19 -0700

U can also use stringCompare. Note that when the strings are in fact
equal, 0 is returned. This has been the convention w/that function in
other languages for a long time--I have no idea why--so asking me
would prove futile.

On 8/12/09, Donald Marang <donald.marang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> You should be able to use the == operator within a condition,
> if StringA == StringB Then
>     ...
> Else
>     ...
> EndIf
>
> or am I missing something?
>
> Don Marang
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jitendra" <jeet.invincible@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 7:16 AM
> Subject: [jawsscripts] testing 2 strings for equality
>
>
>> Hello friends, the following function has a bug, is there any other way
>> doing it?
>> I have 2 strings, and want to compare them, for example: the string a
>> is: "2.00", and string b is: 20.0", so what I want is that the function
>> should return false in that case, and if both strings have same
>> characters, and in the same place as string a has, then true.
>> Void Function stringMatch (string StringA, string StringB)
>> if (StringLength(StringA) == StringLength(StringB)) &&
>> StringContains(StringA,StringB) then
>> return true
>> else
>> return false
>> EndIf
>> EndFunction
>> Thank you, Jitendra.
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