Compare list items in if condition.

Thanks for the reply! I was not sharing the actual code as the logic I use if not that good :)

But here I am sharing my actual code. I am reading 2 files, one line at a time.

From the first file, each line is split by ‘,’ and listed as item1-7.

From second file, each line is split by ‘:’ and listed as item8-7

Item 2 and item9 are numbers that being compared in IF condition – which doesn’t work. Can you please help look into this. Thanks!

procedure(readcsv(ln)
 cline=ln;
 pline=parseString(cline ",")
  i=length(pline)
  printf("Length is %d\n" i)
   item7 = nth(i-1 pline)
   item6 = nth(i-2 pline)
   item5 = nth(i-3 pline)
   item4 = nth(i-4 pline)
   item3 = nth(i-5 pline)
   item2 = nth(i-6 pline)
   item1 = nth(i-7 pline)
 ; printf("ITEM'S 1-7:\n %L\n %L\n %L\n %L\n %L\n %L\n" item1 item2 item3 item4 item5 item6 item7)
port1=infile("codes.csv")
  when(port1
   while(gets(lne port1)
     lne = substring(lne 1 strlen(lne)-1)
    ;printf("LINE: %s\n" ln)
     line=parseString(lne ":")
     len_line=length(line)
     item8=nth(len_line-1 line)
     item9=nth(len_line-2 line)
    ;printf("ITEM'S 8-9:\n %L\n %L\n" item7 item8)
     if( (item2 == item9); if condition is always skipped

       then
       item10 = item8    
       printf("ITEM 10 is:%L\n" item8)
       lista=list(item1 item2 item3 item4 item5 item6 item7 item10)
      else
      item10 = "UNKNOWN"

       lista=list(item1 item2 item3 item4 item5 item6 item7 item10)
     );end if
    );end while
   );end when
printf("LIST ITEM'S:%L\n" lista)
lista
);end proc readcsv openok post

;-----------------------------------
myTable = makeTable("atable1" 0)
port=infile("postout1")
count=0
listN='()
listNew='()
when(port
   while(gets(ln port)
ln = substring(ln 1 strlen(ln)-1)
;   printf("PORT LINE: %s\n" ln)
     listb=readcsv(ln)
     listN = cons(listb listN)
    )
)

Given that you're just comparing strings here (the parseString is going to produce lists of strings, and using nth() will either give you one of those strings or nil if it was an entry that didn't exist), the most likely scenario is that the strings really are NOT equal. == doesn't lie. The one case that causes confusion is where you are comparing floating point numbers, because you may have rounding errors which make two numbers look the same bit actually differ by a tiny amount, smaller than the printing resolution. That's not the case here.

You've not provided the data, or shown an example of the data that produces the problem. So expecting the community to debug it is a bit optimistic! Your previous cut-down example didn't even have a problem at all (I would have expected you to try it before you posted it)...

As a wild guess, maybe there is a space in one of the values  you've read but not in the other - you've got different delimiters in the files being read, but maybe there are other differences? Try printing them out - in your code you're not even printing item9 to check it. Or use the SKILL debugger (in the SKILL IDE in IC615/IC616) and put a breakpoint just before the condition and then  you can inspect the local variables in the CIW.

It's highly unlikely (I'd say that with 100% certainty) that either == or if() are doing anything wrong here - it'll be your data that is different. When debugging, always look for the most likely scenario - if a conditional statement or == were wrong in a language that has been around for so long, it would break all sorts of code, so that's not very likely to have such a fundamental problem.

Kind Regards,

Andrew.