Help with string match?

[alord]

Folks,
I am at a loss... Im trying to use 'string match' to compare 2 items in a list. However, the 2 items contain special characters. This all falls into a much larger script that I wrote but I wrote a small one here to show what I am doing as an example.

#!/usr/local/bin/expect

set MasterList

• 
  lappend MasterList {\"B\"}
  lappend MasterList {\"B\"}
  
  puts "MasterList=$MasterList"
  
  set value [lindex $MasterList 0]
  set value1 [lindex $MasterList 1]
  if {[string match $value $value1] != 1} {
  puts "They do not match"
  } else {
  puts "They match"
  }
  
  I'm just stuffing 2 strings(with special chars) into the list. Then pulling them out individually and comparing them. The 'string match' comparison is always returning a 0, saying they dont match....
  Any ideas as to how to compare strings with special chars like this?
  Thanks in advance for your help!

 

[feherke]

Hi

Why you want to compare them with [tt]string match[/tt] ?

Anyway. Backslashes ( \ ) have special meaning in the pattern but not in the string. So backslashes in the pattern must be escaped with backslashes :

[b]string[/b] match [teal]{[i]"B[/i]"}[/teal] [teal]{\"B\"}[/teal]

Feherke.

http://feherke.github.com/

 

[alord]

Feherke,
Thanks for replying... As I had mentioned, this is all part of a much bigger script. This other script reads in strings and shoves them into lists. These lists are then compared.... In these lists, i have alot of these special chars like \.... I need a way to compare these 2 strings in this manner. I dont particularly need to use string match.

 

[feherke]

Hi

Oops. Something gone wrong while posting. Intended to write :

[b]string match[/b] [teal]{\\"B\\"} {\"B\"}[/teal]

I dont particularly need to use string match.

Ok. Then I suggest to use [tt]string equal[/tt] :

[b]if[/b] [teal]{[/teal][teal][[/teal][b]string[/b] equal [navy]$value[/navy] [navy]$value1[/navy][teal]][/teal] [teal]!=[/teal] [purple]1[/purple][teal]}[/teal] [teal]{[/teal]

Feherke.

http://feherke.github.com/

 

[alord]

Feherke,
That was what I needed!!!! Thanks for your help! It's working now!
Alan