if-then headscratcher

[quickbeam]

Here's something that isn't making sense.  I have a variable that is false, and it prints as false, but when I do the if-then, it acts as true.

Func SetConfigGui($cfgIndex)

    Local $kludgeVar = $UseStampVal[$cfgIndex]  ; interpreter seems to have a problem here
    ConsoleWrite ("=> Setting GUI settings for config " & $cfgIndex & ", use stamp: " & $kludgeVar & ", key ref: " & $UDKeyRefVal[$cfgIndex] & @CRLF)

    If $kludgeVar = True Then
        If $kludgeVar = False Then
            ConsoleWrite ("We got system issues" & @CRLF)
        EndIf
        ConsoleWrite ("Stamp Val:" & $StampVal[$cfgIndex] & ", kludge " & $kludgeVar & @CRLF)
    Else
    ; never reached
 :
 :
 :

EndFunc

Produces:

Quote

=> Setting GUI settings for config 2, use stamp: False, key ref: None
Stamp Val:FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF, kludge False

I added the kludge variable just to eliminate the possibility of the index doing something weird.

[water]

Check the type of $kludgeVar. When it is a string then you get True.
 

$var = "False"
If $var = True Then ConsoleWrite( "**" & @CRLF)
ConsoleWrite(VarGetType($var) & @CRLF)

$var = False
If $var = True Then ConsoleWrite( "**" & @CRLF)
ConsoleWrite(VarGetType($var) & @CRLF)

 

[quickbeam]

Wow, how'd I get this far and not know that?  I use different variables the same way, I hadn't noticed a problem, but now I'm going to have double-check everything.

Thanks!

[BrewManNH]

BTW, this lump of code doesn't make any sense.

If $kludgeVar = True Then
        If $kludgeVar = False Then
            ConsoleWrite ("We got system issues" & @CRLF)
        EndIf
        ConsoleWrite ("Stamp Val:" & $StampVal[$cfgIndex] & ", kludge " & $kludgeVar & @CRLF)
    Else

If $kludgevar were false, it would never get to the second test to check if it's false, and if it's true, the second test would fail. So what exactly would it accomplish with these 2 tests?

[dmob]

1 hour ago, quickbeam said:

Wow, how'd I get this far and not know that?  I use different variables the same way, I hadn't noticed a problem, but now I'm going to have double-check everything.

Thanks!

I learnt that the hard way