filepro quirk

[Fairlight]

You'll never BELIEVE what Kenneth Brody said here...:
> Fairlight wrote:
> [... COMPARE() ...]
> > I do note that the docs I just looked at said "with case sensitivity".
> > They don't go on to elaborate on whether the string lengths matter.  Based
> > on the trinary nature of the return value, however, it looks like it works
> > much like perl's "cmp" operand, and should actually give the desired
> > results.
> 
> What do your tests show?  What does COMPARE("TX","TXA") return?

Uhm...I took his word for it that it works, after reading the
documentation.  I didn't have an immediate need to test it.  I may actually
eventually need to do this, however.

I'm just saying, the 'cmp' function I use for sort() in perl returns 1/0/-1
as well, so it sounds very similar.

> It doesn't take an extra line.  It just means that instead of:
> 
>     If:  compare(field1,field2)
> 
> you need:
> 
>     If:  compare(field1,field2) = "0"
> 
> (Assuming you are comparing for equality only.)

I would be--anything else in string comparisons is useful only for sorting,
AFAIK.  And thanks.  I'll save this for reference as well.  Cool!

mark->
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