From cottrell@wfu.edu Wed Nov 10 15:56:51 2010
From: Allin Cottrell <cottrell@wfu.edu>
To: gretl-devel@gretlml.univpm.it
Subject: Re: [Gretl-devel] string comparison
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:56:50 -0500
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On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, Sven Schreiber wrote:

> the following script gives an error at the != comparison for the string
> variable:
>
> <script>
> string check = "h"
> if check="h"
>     print "equality check works"
> endif
> if check!="h"
>     print "but inequality doesn't"
> endif
> </script>
>
> I'm not sure if any of this is supposed to work, but at least the
> equality part is very useful for me.

The equality part is documented as working; the inequality part
was just not implemented. That was an oversight, now fixed in CVS.

Allin


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