-- here is where i get confused
local str = "hi"
if not str == "hi" then
print("str doesnt equal hi")
else print("str does equal hi")
end
then this
local str = "hello"
if str ~= "hello" then
print("str does not equal hello")
else print("str does equal hello")
end
Why is the output different?
This is an issue with your order of operations. not x == y will check if not x (which evaluates to false) is equal to y, rather than if x isn’t equal to y.
So, this would fix it?
if not (x == y) then
end
Yeah, that’ll work. You’re probably better off using ~= anyways, though, just because it’s the intended way to do it.
Ok, thank you. (30 characters)
local str = “hi”
if not str == “hi” then
print(“str doesnt equal hi”)
else print(“str does equal hi”)
end
local STR = “hello”
if STR ~= “hello” then
print(“STR does not equal hello”)
else print(“STR does equal hello”)
end
Put these into a single script and ran it (changed the second variable to STR) and got this:
str does equal hi
STR does equal hello
I get the same results even if I leave the second variable as ‘str’.
So how are you getting ‘different results’?
If he changes str to anything besides “hi”, it’ll still print that it does equal it. For example, “hey” is clearly not equal to “hi”, but here’s what it prints when str is “hey”:
Okay, now I gotcha.
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