Bug with IF and complex expressions

adroege · Post by **adroege** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 4:08 pm

I think this illustrates a bug with complex expressions. The second If statement SHOULD be true, but the code just skips over it. What is going on here!!!!!! This was run in version 7.3.11.4 registered version.

Let>Version=5.0
Let>pixcol=2204193

If>{(%Version%="4.6") AND (%pixcol%="0")}
LClick
MessageModal>4.6 Click!
Endif
If>{(%Version%="5.0") AND (%pixcol%="2204193")}
LClick
MessageModal>5.0 Click!
Endif
MessageModal>Nothing happened!

Thanks!

Me_again · Post by **Me_again** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 4:41 pm

Corrected

It's not a bug. MS doesn't need the quotes around numbers in complex expression, only strings (thank you JRL for the post below)

So I think you'll find this to be OK.

Let>Version=5.0
Let>pixcol=2204193

If>{(%Version%=4.6) AND (%pixcol%=0)}
LClick
MessageModal>4.6 Click!
Endif
If>{(%Version%=5.0) AND (%pixcol%=2204193)}
LClick
MessageModal>5.0 Click!
Endif
MessageModal>See, it works!

JRL · Post by **JRL** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 4:54 pm

Sorry to interrupt.

MS doesn't need the quotes around the strings

More specifically MS doesn't need quotes around numbers. It does need quotes around text strings used in complex expressions. Here is the sample from the help files as an illustration.

//complex expression:
IF>{(%a% = 5) AND (%VarA% = "allen")}
//do something
ELSE
//do something else
ENDIF

Hope this is useful,
Dick

Me_again · Post by **Me_again** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 5:41 pm

You're right, I'm wrong, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing