why aren't these strings equal?

[abrogard]

Why is this string comparison saying they are not equal?

; Set the working directory if not there now.
    Local $sCurrentDir

    $sCurrentdir = @CRLF & @WorkingDir

    ; Display the working directory.
    MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "", " 2 The current working directory: " & $sCurrentDir)

    Local $sStr1 = $sCurrentDir
    Local $sStr2 = "E:\AUTOITWORK"


; Compare two strings without using case sensitivity.
   Local $iCmp = StringCompare($sStr1, $sStr2)
      MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "", _
        "Comparing " & $sStr1 & " To " & $sStr2 & @CRLF & _
        "StringCompare Result (mode $STR_NOCASESENSE): " & $iCmp)

   If $sCurrentDir <> "E:\AUTOITWORK"  Then
   MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "", " NOT correct directory: ")
          FileChangeDir("E:\AUTOITWORK")
    MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "", "Just changed the dir")
   EndIf

ahhh...  i've made a little  progress.  strlen says one is 13 chars where the other is 15 chars.

what to do next?

ahh..  I have used StringStripWS to make two stripped vars which then compare as the same.

So it was whitespace.

Thank you for the venue to help me work through it...

 

 

Edited June 29, 2019 by abrogard

[mikell]

So you found that adding a leading @crlf makes the string different and longer by 2 white space chars. Nice.

Apart from this great discovery what is the purpose of this totally useless topic ?