Re: What am I doing wrong! Arrays

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Are you a PHP programmer by trade?

That a typical PHP behaviour, because PHP casts Strings to Ints before
comparing. This can be confusing. (Although they sell it as "good
usability") Ruby does not know implicit casts and thus 11 != "11".
Ruby is not as lax as PHP when it comes to types.

(Fun fact. Did you know that 11 == "11abcde"? Ask PHP. Second FF: Did
you know that a variable containing 0 or "0" is empty()?)

Regards,
Florian Gilcher

On Jun 30, 2008, at 10:27 AM, Sebastian Hungerecker wrote:

Tj Superfly wrote:
twelve = "12" and then changed it to array.length == twelve it does
the
same thing.

You're still compating array.length to "12", but Array#length returns
an integer, not a string. "12" is a string. array.length will return
12 and as Daniel said 12 == "12" is false. Whether you assign "12" to
a variable first or not.

HTH,
Sebastian
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