My text doesn't match. The " " problem

bazookaBen

i did a quick test

text1: john doe
text2: john

i added text2 .. " " .. "doe"

then compared text1 and text2. No match

any idea why its not working?

project file here
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/29923081/john-doe-match-test.zip

bazookaBen

@tshirtbooth

no no.

i appended text2 with spacebar plus "doe" at the back. Now both are "john doe"

but when i compare them, no match

if you run the project, you can check the debugger -> it's showing the same text, but no match

bazookaBen

here's my screen

bazookaBen

it's this append whitespace problem. I'm stumped

bazookaBen

okay. i was on 0.9.93 too

bazookaBen

but i need the space in the words. Any way to make it work?

bazookaBen

i figured it out

i was using a combination of opt + spacebar, and normal spacebar. GS detects them differently, but the screen shows what seems to us as spacebars.

solution: don't use opt+spacebar. create a seperate global variable / table, put a normal spacebar in it, and everytime it's needed, retrieve from there

MotherHoose

great @bazookaBen

love tables for lots of solutions!

or … as the text2 has to have the opt+space
type text1 as john[opt+space]doe

darn computers are so literal!

MH