Thanks all. The length test or putting an alpha char before both seems like the easiest. I was hoping there was another more elegant way. This makes me rethink my LC habits in a big way. I was hoping that there was a way to coerce "005" into a string of 3 chars.
Thanks again! ! Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net Office: 518-636-3998 ex:11 Cell: 518-636-3998 <div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Colin Holgate <colinholg...@gmail.com> </div><div>Date:09/02/2015 23:49 (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> </div><div>Subject: Re: Compare numeric strings with leading zeros </div><div> </div>Is there ever a case where this would return true?: put "005" into a put "5" into b answer a = b and length(a) = length(b) _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
