Tereza, it's my opinion that <> ought to have worked as well, as it works with
other forms of non-numeric data, like strings. I think it's something that
slipped by the developers. I would eventually have encountered the same thing.
In fact I did encounter a similar kind of thing when checking t
On Sep 20, 2011, at 11:20 AM, Dave Cragg wrote:
>
> On 20 Sep 2011, at 16:45, Tereza Snyder wrote:
>
>>
>> Is it crazy to assume that if "=" works, then "<>" (or in other languages,
>> "!=") would also?
>
> Not crazy, but we know we shouldn't assume too much. Some of us don't have
> six h
NO you cant:
(from the docs)
Note: Arrays in LiveCode are un-ordered. This means in particular that encoding
two arrays will not necessarily produce the same result, even if the arrays had
the same elements. To compare two arrays, simply use the = operator directly on
them rather than encoding
A caveat, however; test "everything" before you rely on it. NO EXCEPTIONS!
Particularly when you make major changes to the your "systems". Often that may
be accomplished by merely running something that you have done previously that
worked before. If you have several very different somethings to
On 20 Sep 2011, at 16:45, Tereza Snyder wrote:
>
> Is it crazy to assume that if "=" works, then "<>" (or in other languages,
> "!=") would also?
Not crazy, but we know we shouldn't assume too much. Some of us don't have six
hours of hair to lose. :-)
If it is intended to be taken literall
Tereza,
No it is not crazy...
can we assume that arrayencode always encode the same way? because this way
you can simply arrayencode both values and compare them...
andre
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Tereza Snyder wrote:
>
> Is it crazy to assume that if "=" works, then "<>" (or in other
Is it crazy to assume that if "=" works, then "<>" (or in other languages,
"!=") would also?
On Sep 20, 2011, at 10:27 AM, Robert Brenstein wrote:
> On 19.09.2011 at 16:04 Uhr -0500 Tereza Snyder apparently wrote:
>> Look at the docs for "="; LiveCode CAN compare arrays using "=".
>
> Ah, s
On 19.09.2011 at 16:04 Uhr -0500 Tereza Snyder apparently wrote:
Look at the docs for "="; LiveCode CAN compare arrays using "=".
Ah, something new learned; yes, to quote the docs:
The ability to compare two arrays using = was added in version 3.5.
Previously, comparing two arrays would have
On 9/19/11 1:48 PM, Tereza Snyder wrote:
You CAN compare arrays for equality (see the docs for "="), but evidently not
for INequality!
Right. You're not crazy. That's my experience too.
Phil
On Sep 19, 2011, at 3:42 PM, Andre Garzia wrote:
Tereza,
I don't think you can compare arrays lik
Tereza Snyder wrote:
You CAN compare arrays for equality (see the docs for "="), but evidently not
for INequality!
That's good to know. I had thought that all operators only worked on
strings or numbers, and since attempting to get the value of an array
(as opposed to the value of one of i
Look at the docs for "="; LiveCode CAN compare arrays using "=". I started out
as has been suggested, and nearly gave up on my undo implementation because it
was too cumbersome to iterate deep into a couple of elaborate arrays when I
thought to check out array equality in the docs, and lo! it’s
On Sep 19, 2011, at 1:30 PM, Tereza Snyder wrote:
> "(tTestA1 <> tTestA2)" is not the same as "not(tTestA1 = tTestA2)" when the
> arrays are unequal.
OK, Tereza, you're not crazy.
The dictionary entry for "<>" says:
"Use the <> (inequality) operator to compare two numbers or to compare two
st
On 19.09.2011 at 15:30 Uhr -0500 Tereza Snyder apparently wrote:
I recently encountered a problem implementing an undo function in a
script. I needed to compare two arrays to see if any values had
changed, like this:
put (tArray1 <> tArray2) into sDirtyFlag
so that sDirtyFlag would be true wh
You CAN compare arrays for equality (see the docs for "="), but evidently not
for INequality!
On Sep 19, 2011, at 3:42 PM, Andre Garzia wrote:
> Tereza,
>
> I don't think you can compare arrays like that... I never tried to do so, I
> always sort the keys and iterate thru them.
>
> andre
>
>
Tereza,
I don't think you can compare arrays like that... I never tried to do so, I
always sort the keys and iterate thru them.
andre
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Tereza Snyder wrote:
> I recently encountered a problem implementing an undo function in a script.
> I needed to compare two ar
I also ran into comparing arrays in this fashion. First of all, comparing
arrays is cASE sENSITIVE (if I remember correctly). Secondly some normal
operators like empty do not work on arrays. Arrays ALWAYS report empty! (At
least the do for me).
If the arrays are not terribly large, try using t
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