>>Just encountered a bug in our software releated to the use of = when set exact is set to off.
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>>I Know I should be using == in those cases where comparing strings of different lenght, but just a small test made me wonder.
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>>Is there any reason I should not use == for any comparison in VFP? It seems to work for any datatype.
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>>Is there any gotcha using == as a standard?
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>>Walter,
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>Not that I am aware of, I know people who do that all the time in order to differentiate assignments from comparisons.

Which I find a good argument in itself. I just wonder why it has taken me more thaw 20 years to draw that conclusion.