Greetings,

     It seems like I always have the hardest time trying to do the simplest things.   
For instance in the code snipet below the not equal comparison EXTENSION-IN <> ".txt" 
always evaluates to true and always appends ".txt" to the end of the string even if 
there's already .txt at the end of the string.  I don't understand.  Thanks in advance.

INPUT-FILE:  ask "Enter name of file with numbers to be processed: " comment { user 
enters owwnumbers.txt }
OUTPUT-FILE: ask "Enter name of output file: "
INPUT-FILE: make string! INPUT-FILE 
OUTPUT-FILE: make string! OUTPUT-FILE 
comment { Are the last 4 chars of the str equal to ".txt"? If not append ".txt" to the 
end of the string. }
EXTENSION-IN: substr INPUT-FILE ( (length?  INPUT-FILE ) - 3) 4 
print EXTENSION-IN comment { prints out .txt on the screen}
EXTENSION-OUT: substr OUTPUT-FILE ( (length?  OUTPUT-FILE ) - 3) 4 
if  [EXTENSION-IN <> ".txt"] [append INPUT-FILE ".txt" ]
if  [EXTENSION-OUT <> ".txt"] [append OUTPUT-FILE ".txt" ]
INPUT-FILE: make file! INPUT-FILE
OUTPUT-FILE:  make file! OUTPUT-FILE

DIAL-PEERS-NUMBERS: read/lines INPUT-FILE ...

** Access Error: Cannot open /C/Documents and 
Settings/svondrasek/Desktop/REBOL/owwnumbers.txt.txt
** Near: DIAL-PEERS-NUMBERS: read/lines INPUT-FILE

Steve Vondrasek
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