worked like charm. thanks -amit
On 9/9/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Jess doesn't have an explicit else-if feature; if you put an "if" into > the "else" of another "if", then that second "if" is a separate > function call, so it needs its own parentheses. > > If I may, I will point out a few other things here: You don't need to > spell out the names of any classes in java.lang, as it's implicitly > imported, just as in Java. Second, you don't actually need to > construct Strings at all; you can call Java String methods on Jess > strings. Third, you can (and should) always omit "call" when calling a > Java instance method; it's really only needed when you're invoking a > static method. So you could clean your function up like this: > > (deffunction compare-comptment-function(?s1 ?s2) > (if (eq ?s1 ?s2) then > (return "FFF") > else (if (?s1 contains ?s2) then > (printout t "COMES 1" crlf) > (return ?s1) > else (if (?s2 contains ?s1) then > (printout t "COMES 2" crlf) > (return ?s2) > else > (printout t "COMES 3" crlf) > (return (str-cat ?s1 , ?s2)))))) > > I think Amit Jain wrote: > [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > > Hi all > > I'm trying to compare two strings > > > > (deffunction compare-comptment-function(?s1 ?s2) > > (bind ?str-buff1 (new java.lang.String ?s1)) > > (bind ?str-buff2 (new java.lang.String ?s2)) > > (if (eq ?s1 ?s2) then > > (return "FFF") > > else if (call ?str-buff1 contains ?str-buff2) then > > (printout t "COMES 1" crlf) > > (return ?s1) > > else if (call ?str-buff2 contains ?str-buff1) then > > (printout t "COMES 2" crlf) > > (return ?s2) > > else > > (printout t "COMES 3" crlf) > > (return (str-cat ?s1 , ?s2)))) > > > > SO when i call (compare-comptment-function "CSEE" "CS") it should return > > "COMES 1" "CSEE" > > > > (compare-comptment-function "CSE" "CSEEE") it should return "COMES 2" > > "CSEEE" > > and (compare-comptment-function "AE" "CSE") it should return "COMES 3" > > "AE,CSE" > > > > but it keeps going into first elseif loop in all the cases. please tell > me > > what i'm doing wrong. thanks for the help. > > -amit > > > > --------------------------------------------------------- > Ernest Friedman-Hill > Advanced Software Research Phone: (925) 294-2154 > Sandia National Labs FAX: (925) 294-2234 > PO Box 969, MS 9012 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Livermore, CA 94550 http://herzberg.ca.sandia.gov > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, send the words 'unsubscribe jess-users [EMAIL PROTECTED]' > in the BODY of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], NOT to the list > (use your own address!) List problems? Notify [EMAIL PROTECTED]
