>>Hi Cetin,
>>
>>It would return .f. if thisform.myprop is padded with spaces and set exact is ON.
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>Sergey,
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>This is a common misconception. SET EXACT ON causes the shorter string to be padded with spaces to equal the longer string before they are compared. == is the opnly operator that will actually test for exact equality. That is why I strongly recommend that set exact is never set to ON.
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>

>lcVar1 = "John"
>lcvar2 = "John    "
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>SET EXACT OFF
>? lcvar1 = lcVar2 && True
>? lcvar2 = lcVar1 && False
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>SET EXACT ON
>? lcvar1 = lcVar2 && True
>? lcvar2 = lcVar1 && True
>
>* SET EXACT anyway you want
>? lcvar1 == lcVar2 && False
>? lcvar2 == lcVar1 && False
>

Good to know. I was always under impression that SET EXACT ON an '==' operator are equivalent. But it's not the case as you pointed out.