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Article #535Re: Arexx Again
From: Terrance Richard Boyes
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 00:00
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 00:00
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A.P. Suggitt <SSS-900-C@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote: > 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 C, awk (and probably Perl) for a start. > 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. On the whole in ARexx it does not matter whether you use = or == in a test, AFAIR the difference resolves around the use of spaces in strings. -- -- <URL:http://www.pierrot.co.uk/> Team AMIGA Field theories, unite!
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