does it matter what value you compare it to? e.g. if you say GT 10000000 do you still get back True? Could it be doing a sum of the ascii values or something?
or is it just GIGO?
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=gigo&r=67
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| "Tim Blair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
05/04/2004 15:55
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To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject: [ cf-dev ] String values and GTE etc |
Afternoon,
OK, more numeric weirdness. I had a bug (now fixed) that was caused by
a string value being incorrectly used as numeric. Basically, I was
supposed to be checking that the length of a string was greater than
(say) 5 characters:
#len(myString) GT 5#
However, I'd misplaced the closing bracket so I had the following:
#len(myString GT 5)#
Now I would have thought that I would have got an error trying to
compare a non-numeric value (e.g. if myString = "hvuaoeg") to a numeric
one, but noooo... Try the following:
<cfset teststr = "adgbyeai">
<cfoutput>#val(teststr)#</cfoutput><br> <!--- "0" --->
<cfoutput>#teststr LT 5#</cfoutput><br> <!--- "NO" --->
<cfoutput>#teststr GT 5#</cfoutput> <!--- "YES" --->
So what's going on here then?
Tim.
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