Subject: RE: [xsl] comparing a string to a number? From: cknell@xxxxxxxxxx Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 09:16:07 -0400 |
Yes, '1A' will always be "less than" '20' when compared as strings. String sorting is based on the numeric value (usually ASCII) of each successive character. Thus '10000000' will be "less than" '2'. -- Charles Knell cknell@xxxxxxxxxx - email -----Original Message----- From: "Keller, Matt" <Keller.Matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 17:18:19 -0500 To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [xsl] comparing a string to a number? I've recently taken over an app that I didn't develop. I found this in the code: <xsl:if test="/Output/response/Field < '20'"> This is confusing to me for a few reasons. 1) The '20' is in quotes 2) the value of the Field node is most often a number, but on some occasions it's a letter/number pair, like 1A or 1B. Can this check ever work? Would 1A ever be "less" than '20'? -Matt XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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