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wiseleyb
strings in loadStrings
Feb 13th, 2006, 2:32pm  
if i have a text file with a line in it like "background 255 100 110" (no quotes)

and i do a:
String lines[] = loadStrings(filename);
String list[] = split(lines[0]);

then
false: list[0] == "background"
true : int(list[1]) == 255
true : int(list[2]) == 100
true : int(list[3]) == 110

i can't seem to read in string values.  i've println'd them out, and they're there but when i do a:
if (list[0] == "background")
it always comes up false.

i've tried trim, casting it to a String, etc.  what am i missing?

-ben
working on:  http://mudabone.com/tangram/20060212/index.html
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eskimoblood
Re: strings in loadStrings
Reply #1 - Feb 13th, 2006, 2:53pm  
Cause a string is an object and not a variable like a char use string.equals or equalsIgnoreCase  to compare strings.
Code:

list[0].equals ("background");

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Andreas Köberle {eskimoblood}
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TomC
Re: strings in loadStrings
Reply #2 - Feb 13th, 2006, 3:21pm  
See also: http://processing.org/faq/bugs.html#strings
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