$A>$B not working

[Guest pipo]

Hi all,

this is my first post... please be indulgent ;0)

Here is a problem that drives me nuts:

I wrote a script to automate some complex photoshop procedure, in a part of it I pick up two parameters of an image, namely $width and $height (I checked, the values I get are OK), then I need to compare these two values and take some decision, so:

if $height>$width then

foo1....

else

foo2...

endif

I *know* that $height IS bigger than $width because I displayed the values... and though, foo2 is executed!!!!!

(to double check I calculated $height/$width and displayed it in a MsgBox in foo2... I got foo2 executed and outputing $height/$width=1.2....)

TIA for any input

Pipo.

[DaLiMan]

Can you show us what your values look like?

[Guest pipo]

Okay... found out

sorry for the hassle guys.... after trying everything and more I thought that my variables could be strings and not numbers.... it was enough to convert them before comparison....

Funny I had to work on that for 10 hours, sleep on it, post my message, look a fool and then find the solution...

Thanks any way.

pipo

[Blue_Drache]

Okay... found out

sorry for the hassle guys.... after trying everything and more I thought that my variables  could be strings and not numbers.... it was enough to convert them before comparison....

Funny I had to work on that for 10 hours, sleep on it, post my message, look a fool and then find the solution...

Thanks any way.

pipo

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I've run into that myself. Don't feel bad. I had to wind up using StringFormat to force the numerical strings into decimal format after reading the data from a file....for about 2 hours I was wondering why a number wasn't returning true in a StringIsDigit() function. When I KNEW that the particular string was all digits at the time.

I also like the fact if you use StringFormat to take an alpha-numeric string and try to force it into a digit format that it will fail quietly.