simple comparison failing

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Bruce Easton (Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:34:53 -0500):

> Kenneth Brody wrote Thursday, February 14, 2008 4:17 PM:
>
>> Quoting Tyler (Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:21:16 -0700):
>>
>> > dreport is incorrectly evaluating a comparison between two values.
>> > Check this out:
>> > http://www.kinotox.net/temp/boom.jpg
>> >
>> > The variable r has no defined length.  This is within a function that
>> > r is passed to.
>> >
>> > Can anyone explain this one, and how to fix it???
>>
>> What does the debugger say for "E"xpression "@edit(r)"?  My guess is that
>> it will say ".0".
>
> Ken, are you suggesting that r is declared somewhere as ".0" (as in
> the auto table)?  But even if that is so, then is it expected
> behavior for the debugger to evaluate the test 'If: r eq "Y"' to true?
> Seems odd.

If r is numeric, then the comparison will be a numeric compare.  (Consider
the ramifications if this were not the case.  How would you expect to be
able to do things like [if: YTDSales lt "100"] if the comparison were not
numeric?)

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