if/else help 2

[frozenpeas]

I am working in Flash 5.

I have an input field with the variable name of "one". The user enters his/her answer in the field then presses an Enter button which contains:

on (release, keyPress &quot;<Enter>&quot;) {
    if (one eq &quot;meatball&quot;) {
        trace (&quot;correct&quot;);
    } else {
        trace (&quot;incorrect&quot;);
    }
}

This works fine.

What I want to do is allow for uppercase, lowercase, first letter caps. (MEATBALL, meatball, Meatball)

I have tried this but all three answers come up as incorrect:

on (release, keyPress &quot;<Enter>&quot;) {
    if (one eq [&quot;meatball&quot; | &quot;Meatball&quot; | &quot;MEATBALL&quot;]) {
        trace (&quot;correct&quot;);
    } else {
        trace (&quot;incorrect&quot;);
    }
}

Thanks for your help.

 

[oldnewbie]

If you only want those 3 possibilities, try this:

if ((one == "meatball&quot || (one == "MEATBALL&quot || (one == "Meatball&quot) {
trace ("Correct!"
} else {
trace ("Incorrect!"
}

Regards,

ldnewbie

 

[frozenpeas]

Beautiful!

Thanks a lot!

 

[wangbar]

Alternatively you could use a handy method of the String object so that you only have one option to deal with.

toLowerCase() takes your input and turns everything to lowercase so it doesn't matter if the input was capitalised, all uppercase or even a random combination of cases.

myString = new String(one);
if (myString.toLowerCase() == "meatball&quot {
trace ("correct"
} else {
trace ("incorrect"
}

 

[frozenpeas]

Nice tweak! Thanks!