Re: Comparison failure

[Dave Rutherford]

On Jan 10, 2008 8:13 AM, Frans de Boer <frans@fransdb.nl> wrote:
> Following is a function which fails constantly.
[...]
>   if [[ $i != -1 && $i < $((iPriTblCnt-1)) ]]; then
>     echo $((i+1));
>   else
>     echo -1
>   fi

Now, "[[" isn't very well documented, so I tend not to use it,
but notice how "<" behaves here. It looks like it's doing a string
comparison.  Try "-lt" to get a numeric less-than.

> ------ Example trace 1 ->
[...]
> ++ [[ 5 < 54 ]]
> ++ echo 6
[...]
> ++ [[ 6 < 54 ]]
> ++ echo -1
[...]
> ------------- Example trace 2 ->
[...]
> ++ [[ 1 < 109 ]]
> ++ echo 2
[...]
> ++ [[ 2 < 109 ]]
> ++ echo -1

Regards,
   Dave