filepro quirk

[Fairlight]

Simon--er, no...it was Jeff Harrison--said:
> 
> Sure.  In most languages you would need to use a mid
> or left command or something similar to get the same
> functionality:
[snip]
> Lets see, that's at least 13 characters saved per
> comparison (not counting the "if, then, endif"  :-)

Which is fine and well--WHEN you want it to behave that way.  I think
the point is that there should be a way to do an absolute, unequivocable
equality test, independant of whatever the language "thinks" you want when
you currently say 'eq'.

mark->
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