Ulrich Krueger wrote:
>Could someone please run a TRACE and post the results? I can't at the
moment. This really puzzles me.
What so puzzling? ;-D
/* REXX */
/* To MATCH or NOT MATCH String versus Number */
/* Variables are actually exponencial numbers */
/* It is 0*10^0 against 0*10^8 basically zero/nilch/nada/0 */
TRACE I
OFFSET1 = '0000E0' ;
OFFSET2 = '0000E8' ;
IF (OFFSET1 == OFFSET2) THEN SAY 'MATCH!' ;
ELSE SAY 'NO MATCH!'
With '='
6 *-* OFFSET1 = '0000E0'
>L> "0000E0"
7 *-* OFFSET2 = '0000E8'
>L> "0000E8"
8 *-* IF (OFFSET1 = OFFSET2)
>V> "0000E0"
>V> "0000E8"
>O> "1"
*-* THEN
*-* SAY 'MATCH!'
>L> "MATCH!"
MATCH!
***
With '=='
6 *-* OFFSET1 = '0000E0'
>L> "0000E0"
7 *-* OFFSET2 = '0000E8'
>L> "0000E8"
8 *-* IF (OFFSET1 == OFFSET2)
>V> "0000E0"
>V> "0000E8"
>O> "0"
9 *-* ELSE
*-* SAY 'NO MATCH!'
>L> "NO MATCH!"
NO MATCH!
***
HTH!
Groete / Greetings
Elardus Engelbrecht
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