Strange if statement behaviour...

[Raenius]

Hi all,

On the load of a windows form I run some quesries against a database and extract some fields. For example if a certain settings is to be enabeled or not.

If you look at the following code:

		 // Audio Tab Page settings
		string msg2 ="Audio_enabled: " +audio_en;
		MessageBox.Show(msg2);
		if(audio_en.ToString() == "yes")
			{
			this.checkBoxEditRouterAudioYes.Checked = true;
			}
		else
			{
			MessageBox.Show("why?");
			this.checkBoxEditRouterAudioNo.Checked = true;
			}

The messagebox first says Audio Enabled: yes and then it STILL goes in the ELSE clause displaying a messagebox with the words: Why?

Does anyone have a clue what is going on here?

Thanks in advance...

- Raenius

"Free will...is an illusion"

 

[jby1]

Have you tried using the .Equals(string) method to do your string comparison, rather than the == operator?

 

[jby1]

or have you tried trimming any padding spaces out of audio_en?

 

[Skute]

i would imagine its a padding issue but without seeing if those if / else statements are in a larger if / else nest its hard to tell

Skute

"There are 10 types of people in this World, those that understand binary, and those that don't!"

 

[Raenius]

Equals method still gives the same result.

Trimming the Padding I am now trying..

Basically what happens before this is that an query is made to a database and the string audio_en is declared via the sqldatareader..


"Free will...is an illusion"

 

[Raenius]

And indeed it was a trailing spaces issue, very weird because I thought that I had excluded this in my database updates...strange..

No worries everything is working fine now... up to my new part of the program which is Email validation with a regex in a textbox...

Thanks for the help!

- Raenius

"Free will...is an illusion"