Re: Help with sting compare?

[Adrian Sietsma <adrian_groups@...>]

Ron Hudson wrote:
> I can do this from interactive lua and it seems to work, but when I  use 
> it in
> a lua program it does not work..
>
> I am reading through a file that has variable length records, records  
> are separated
> with a line containing only the "&". The last line in the file has "&&".
>
> repeat
>     aline = read.io()
>     if aline == "&" then
>       count = count + 1
>     end
> until aline == "&&"
>
> Neither "&" or "&&" are ever detected.
> I have checked the file... & and && are the only thing in the line.
> I also have ">" .. aline .. "<" printed and see >&<
>
> I don't get it... it should be straight forward.

try declaring aline before the repeat...until block.

i had a similar problem which this approach fixed - i surmised that it was a 
variable scoping issue.



Adrian