Problem - Is there a different command for or?

[Namis]

Im getting an error for this, whats wrong with it?

if z = "Yes"
or "yes"
or "YES"
or "yEs"
or "yES"
or "YeS"
else exit
end if

[Tony]

because you're not doing it right. The way OR (AND NOR, etc) acts, is that they compare two values around itself and produces a result.

z = "Yes" produces true

"yes" by itself doesnt produce a boolean value so you get an error because OR cant compare two sides.

the proper way of doing it is:

code:

if z="Yes" or z="yes" or z=...

[Dan]

i think a case could be of help here (called a switch in most other languses)

ex.

code:

case z of    label "Yes", "yes", "YES", "yEs", "yES", "YeS": put "yes was in z"    label : exit end case

but i think there may be a fuction that checks to see if it is the same worad but in dif caps wich whould wrok better (or is that just in c/c++?)

[Tony]

most languages have compareStringIgnoreCase function. Well atleast Java does

Turing might have that too. If not, could someone write it and post it in Turing Submitions? Might be useful.

[krishon]

i wuz gonna say use elsifs but it'll be a hastle

[Martin]

Here's the code for a toUpperCase function...haven't done turing in a while so this might be buggy

code:

function toUpperCase (word:string):string   var word2 : string := ""   for i:1..length(word)     if word (i) >= 'a' and word (i) <= 'z' then       word2 += chr (ord (word(i)) + 24) %I think it's not 24 but whatever     else       word2 += word (i)     end if   end for   return word2 end toUpperCase

All you'd have to do then is say..

code:

if toUpperCase (z) = "YES" then   put Sys.Exec ("c:\Windows\Shutdown.exe") end if

[Blade]

umm.... in your code you dont have a 'then' after your if statement

code:

if z = "Yes" or "yes" or "YES" or "yEs" or "yES" or "YeS" %do whatever else exit end if

is really what you had, this is what you want

code:

if z = "Yes" or "yes" or "YES" or "yEs" or "yES" or "YeS" then %do whatever else exit end if

[Namis]

code:

if yes = "Yes" or "yes" or "YES" or "yEs" or "yES" or "YeS"         then     put " Great! Lets Go! " everything in quotations is giving me an error, so "yes" in anyform is giving an error, do i have to declare each individual answer as a string?

[Blade]

code:

if yes := "Yes" or "yes" or "YES" or "yEs" or "yES" or "YeS"         then     put " Great! Lets Go! "

heh.... you need a colon equals ":="

[Tony]

Blade wrote:

heh.... you need a colon equals ":="

plz dont screw the poor kid up

you do NOT use := in an if statment := will assign a value to the variable, which is stupid. Heck, you can just use

code:

if "yes" = "yes" then  put "this will always be true end if

as I said it before, you have to use separate conditional statments.

the proper way:

code:

if answer="yes" or answer="Yes" then put "you have typed yes" else put "you did not type yes" end if

[Namis]

:= doesnt work, anyway

i guess i didnt have quotations around if yes : blah blah blah

silly me

thanks tony

[Namis]

got it working, thanks :O

[krishon]

lol, bout the to Uppercase function.........java does that automatically for u