Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> 
> Notice the first line of \ascii, and compare that with the definition of
> \doifelse. The command \!!stringa inside the definition of \doifelse gets
> expanded too soon. Is there any way to get this work, other than doing the
> comparison outside the MP code.

Not with \doifelse. If the control sequences are as simple as in the
example, you could do the comparison in MP code:

   def doifelse (expr a, b)(text c)(text d) =
     if a=b: c else: d fi
   enddef;
   draw doifelse("test")("string")(fullcircle)(fullsquare) scaled 5cm ;


Best wishes,
Taco

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