On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- WGO wrote:
> Chris Devers wrote:
> > Also, as a side note, if $whichForm is numeric, you should just use
> > the nueric comparisons rather than the string ones:
> >
> > if $whichForm eq "123" # bad!
> > if $whichForm = 123 # good!
>
> Good if = becomes == otherwise doing assignment and not compare.
D'oh!
Also, as a side note, test what you write before hitting send :-)
if $whichForm eq "123" # bad! works, but in the wrong way
if $whichForm = 123 # awful! doesn't even work!
if $whichForm == 123 # good! works, and works numerically
Sorry about that :-)
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Chris Devers
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