simple comparison failing

[Bruce Easton]

Kenneth Brody wrote Thursday, February 14, 2008 5:10 PM:
>
> 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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Got it - so then what I should see here as being odd is trying to compare
apples to oranges.

Bruce

Bruce Easton
STN, Inc.