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Beginner Joined: 02 Aug 2007 Posts: 10

Hi :)

I am having problems with this:

#if (@bzkdr < 10 OR @achrs < 4) {#EC You need to SCAR!}

What I want it to do is ECHO if either variable is true, but that is not what is happening. It seems to only work when the first variable is true.

I probably am not understanding OR. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

I never trust the order of operations in any language. It is a good habit to add extra parenthesis to make sure you get what you want.
#if ((@bzkdr < 10) OR (@achrs < 4)) {#EC You need to SCAR!}

Sorcerer Joined: 13 Jan 2006 Posts: 715

I agree with Vij, its a bit paranoid, but unless you've yourself thoroughly tested a language for proper OrderOps, don't trust it. Heck, the only language I trust it in to this day is C

Adept Joined: 04 Feb 2005 Posts: 246

I can't reproduce that problem, extra parens or no (and I've never parenthesized such a simple expression, so I doubt that's the issue). I would check that @achrs really does hold the number you think it does, and isn't a string of some sort (#SH {|@achrs|} is a good way to check), and that you don't have more than one variable of this name and the script is picking up the wrong one (try doing that #SH in the false clause of that #if, for example).

Sorcerer Joined: 13 Jan 2006 Posts: 715

Another thing you can do is above your #IF in your alias or trigger put:
#ECHO Value 1: @bzkdr
#ECHO Value 2: @achrs
#ECHO Testing Values Compared To 10 And 4 Respectively

Then during your testing phase you can always see what the 2 vars are every time the IF is called.

Beginner Joined: 02 Aug 2007 Posts: 10

Thank you Vijilante!

Putting the extra brackets fixed it. Yay - now it is working perfectly.

Thank you so much.