But wait, it gets even weirder!

If you do the following, to make sure there's no chance of the two strings acting as numeric:

VAL1 = "43008E-112": ""
and
VAL2 = "43008E-108":""

the program still fails.  When you REALLY make sure you're doing a string 
compare with

IF (VAL1:"" = VAL2:"") THEN

it STILL FAILS!

Oh well, I guess U2 has a mind of its own with regard to string compare.  Note 
that the string compare works OK on most generic Pick platforms.

Matthew H. Stern, CCP/CDP, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Serving the IT industry since 1976
Comprehensive Computer Services Inc.
www.comprehensive.com
Phone: 631 755-2250, Fax 755-2254
560 Broad Hollow Road, Melville NY 11747



Marilyn Hilb wrote:

I had this same problem with our bin locations that contained an E. I ended up 
swapping E for X before doing the compare to get the results I wanted.

Thanks,

Marilyn A. Hilb Value Part, Inc
Direct: 847-918-6099
Fax: 847-367-1892
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www.valuepart.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Louis Windsor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 6:20 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [U2] [UV]Strange But True


I don't know if it is intentional but the values you are comparing
are exponential.

So the comparison is of two incredibly small numbers.  The
numbers are so small they are equal for all intents or purposes.

My 2c worth.

Louis


----- Original Message ----- From: "Bjorn Behr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 7:08 PM
Subject: [U2] [UV]Strange But True



: Uv Version: UniVerse 10.1
: OS : Windows 2003 Server
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: Can anybody explain. I wrote a small program and the result has baffeled me.
:
: Program:
:
: VAL1 = "43008E-112"
: VAL2 = "43008E-108"
: IF (VAL1 = VAL2) THEN
: CRT "THIS IS STRANGE"
: END
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: It returns THIS IS STRANGE. Does anybody know why?
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