string comparison

[Boris Glawe]

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


P.S. I have cancelled two versions of this posting, since they contained some
typos and syntax errors

 

[dblack]

Hi --

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.

Well... but showing some working code that doesn't illustrate the
problem isn't going to help us help you

I wonder whether this .text method is return an object other than a
plain String -- perhaps an object with == redefined.


David