Why is it that within an if statement I can use a Boolean equal sign to compare objects to a number, but if I try to compare numbers to text I get an error stating that the action could not be performed with text.

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Boolean Operator - Text and Number.sm (9 KiB) downloaded 49 time(s).

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Ah yes, I should have been more specific.

It seems odd to me that the if you compare text to a number the Boolean decides that the text does not equal the number so it executes "as expected". However, if you compare a number to text there is an error thrown. Clearly the text is not the number so why not behave in the same manor?

Thanks for the response, btw.

Seems a bug to me. At first glance it happens only if the number in the comparison comes from el() and is not the first matrix element.

Few modules in this work sheet, may be useful.
Sorry : unrecorded source/originator.

Jean

Utilities Matrix IsArray.sm (20 KiB) downloaded 39 time(s).