From: Tom Reilly <w3gat@...>
Date: 2005-12-16T05:12:49+09:00
Subject: Re: string comparison

You might check to see that obj.text.class is the same as obj.text.class.
Also check the sizes of both.  I've been caught by \n which doesn't show up.

Boris Glawe wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a class containing a string as an instance variable and I have 
> a local variable containing a string.
>
> I compare these two strings with '==' and with the .eql? method:
>
> ###################################
>
> obj.text = "hello world"
> localtext = "hello world"
>
> if obj.text == localtext
> then
>     # do something
> end
>
> ###################################
>
> The condition never became true in my program. Thus I added some debug 
> output. This is the the debugging code:
>
> if not obj.text == localtext
> then
>     print "\"#{obj.text}\" is not equal \"localtext\"\n"
> end
>
> This is, what it gave me:
>
> "hello world" is not equal "hello world"
>
> It's not worth trying the example above, since it's not the actual 
> code. The actual code in my project is much more complex, that's why I 
> used this example to discribe my problem.
>
> Fact is that when the string comparison does not succeed I get an 
> output like
>
> "hello world" is not equal "hello "world"
>
> Now it's your turn... What could cause this behaviour?
>
> thanks and greets
>
> Boris
>
>