Yeah, that will teach me to post some contrived code to the list :) But the production code is really working that way, String.Compare doesn't return zero for strings that seem to be equally to me.
At first I thought the internal representation of the strings where not equal, so I logged the length of the strings. But even their lengths are the same! :S Anyone another idea how to tackle this? A lot of entries that fail contain an i, so I immediately thought about the turkish-i problem, but I have found another entry that failed to without an i in it: romA vs ROMA // Ryan On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Simon Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > It works fine for me (other than that your code doesn't compile because > you need String.Format(....) inside the exception constructor). > > Are you sure there isn't at typo or something in your code? > > My test code is: > > // code works fine - string.Compare() returns 0 so no exception > string str1 = "-mylife"; > string str2 = "-MYLIFE"; > if (0 != string.Compare(str1, str2, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)) > { > string msg = string.Format("Compare failed str1:({0}) length:{1} > str2:({2}) length:{3}", str1, str1.Length, str2, str2.Length); > throw new Exception(msg); > } > > =================================== > This list is hosted by DevelopMentor(R) http://www.develop.com > > View archives and manage your subscription(s) at > http://discuss.develop.com > =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentorĀ® http://www.develop.com View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com