Please help... I am so frustrated with this bit of code. I dont understand why its not working. I am checking one field from another field if they are equal then you return a bool value of true. If they are false you load it to an array. I swear it sounds easy but when i run it and i have both fields on quickwatch they look equal it still goes to the else condition
string delimiterStr = ","; char [] display; char [] delimiter = delimiterStr.ToCharArray();delimiterStr = "Total";
char [] total = delimiterStr.ToCharArray(); string [] splitString;splitString = st.Split(delimiter,12);
if ((splitString[0].ToString()) != ""){
display = splitString[0].ToCharArray(1,5);
if (display == total) ---> this is where the compare is. It goes to the else it seems every time. return true; elsecust[NumofRecords].Name = splitString[0];
}
cust[NumofRecords].DateofPurch = splitString[1];
return false;}
Need desperate help with a simple compare
skiersdelight
Rich John
StevenCardinal
Well, you cannot compare to arrays like this...
What you are comparing here are two objects of type System.Char[] there is no equal operator for this type, so the object references are compared and it is obviously not the same object instance, so the result is false - always. ToString does not work either, because then you get two times "System.Char[]" which would be always true.
Use a small helper function like this one:
static bool Compare(char[] a, char[] b)
{
if (a.Length != b.Length) return false;
for (int i = 0; i < a.Length; i++)
if (a [ i ] != b [ i ] ) return false;
return true;
}
and compare like this:
if (Compare(display,total)) ..
cananyonespeakenglish
Scott Z
although the strings within display and total might be the same, the comparison you're making is between pointers and not the strings themselves. Try something like:
if(display.ToString() == total.ToString())
{
....
}