You can use build-in functions which manipulate strings. Please, try this one:
on mouseUp local userTyping = 5 local myVeryStrongPassword = "005" if matchText( userTyping, myVeryStrongPassword) then answer "Great!" else answer "Too bad :( try again.." put "005" into userTyping if matchText( userTyping, myVeryStrongPassword) then answer "Great!" end if end mouseUp Regards, Thierry 2015-09-03 7:00 GMT+02:00 Mark Wieder <mwie...@ahsoftware.net>: > On 09/02/2015 09:49 PM, Ralph DiMola wrote: >> >> I would have thought 5=005 would evaluate as true and "5"="005" would >> evaluate as false. > > > In any other language that would work. > Unfortunately in LC everything's stringish. > ------------------------------------------------ Thierry Douez - http://sunny-tdz.com sunnYrex - sunnYtext2speech - sunnYperl - sunnYmidi - sunnYmage _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode