Re: Arexx Again

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From: A.P. Suggitt
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 00:00

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Terrance Richard Boyes (tez@pierrot.co.uk) wrote:
> A.P. Suggitt <SSS-900-C@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > To check if a variable is a specific value use double equal
> > signs "==" in the If expression. If you want to do different
> > functions for specific values check out the Select/When/Otherwise
> > command.
> 
> Pardon ?
> 
> if a = b then
>     blah
> 
> works fine.
> 

I may be getting my languages mixed up, in one language, after
this example a would be set to the value of b and the branch
succeed so the '==' is used. As the ARexx handbook lists this as
the EXACT operator that this is what was missing here. Wrong
again no doubt.

peter

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