Re: comparisons

In spite of yor best efforts here, PHP converts the string values to numbers (because the strings look like numbers) before doing the comparison. Force a string comparison by using strcmp and everything will work fine - remember that strcmp returns true if the strings are not equal and false if equal. Cheers ________________ Reply Header ________________ Subject: [PHP] comparisons Author: "Curtis Maurand" <curtis@canon.maurand.com> Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 18:47:31 +0000 Hello, I'm having a rather strange problem. I'm trying to compare two values. "01" and "1". The variables names that they are submitted under are pick1 and pick2. i use the following code $mypick1 = strval($pick1); $mypick2 = strval($pick2); I then perform the following comparison: if ($mypick1 == $mypick2) { $error = 1; $errorstring[1] = "Your first pick and second pick are the same."; } However, I get the error that they are equal. If I call the comparison as foloows: if(strval($mypick1) == strval($mypick2) { $error = 1; $errorstring[1] = "Your first pick and second pick are the same."; } I still get the error. Anyone have any ideas? These two valuse mustbe evaluated as different. Thanks in advance Curtis