Well, if you just want to compare two strings to see if the values are
identical, that should be
if ( $myString eq $myOtherString )
The == operator is for NUMERIC comparisons, while eq is for STRING
comparisons.
As pointed out elsewhere, if you want to see if one string is contained
within another, then the index function would be appropriate. A regular
expression match could of course do this, but introduces other complexities,
that are better avoided if this is all you need.
-----Original Message-----
From: "Liss, Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: A little harder newbie question....
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 15:45:19 -0800
Eugene,
This is just too complicated...
Why can't it simply be:
$myString = "what ever you want";
$myOtherString = "Something else";
if( $myString == $myOtherString )
{
&proceed();
}
else
{
&stop();
}
Maybe I am just having a difficulty wrapping my head
around this different paradigm in programming..
but shouldn't a string compare be easy ??
Mike
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