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Flyingroc Chung
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Join date: 3 Jun 2004
Posts: 329
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07-08-2004 09:39
I want to compare 2 strings, and to my horror, LSL does not implement < or > for strings. I've come up with this:
//returns 0 if a ==b; -1 if a < b; 1 is a > b
integer compare_strings(string a, string b) {
if(a == b) {
return 0;
} else {
list x = llListSort([a,b], 1, TRUE);
if(llList2String(x, 0) == a) {
return -1;
} else {
return 1;
}
}
}
Is there a "native" way of comparing strings? LSL can sort them so there is at least internally implemented a strign comparison routine. |
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Rhysling Greenacre
Registered User
Join date: 15 Nov 2003
Posts: 132
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07-08-2004 09:51
In God's eyes all strings are equal!
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Caoimhe Armitage
Script Witch
Join date: 7 Sep 2004
Posts: 117
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11-03-2004 07:33
From: Flyingroc Chung I want to compare 2 strings, and to my horror, LSL does not implement < or > for strings. This is apalling. I have just hit this same problem myself. THanks for the code posting. |
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Samhain Broom
Registered User
Join date: 1 Aug 2004
Posts: 298
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11-03-2004 07:57
something else you may want to keep in mind, force both strings to lower case to eliminate that possibility (unless you were LOOKING for case differences too)...
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