String Comparisons In Lua Code?

[Atom]

Hi, i am not really good with Lua yet but i have been working with it ok and have been coding various OpenGL things fine. If i just set and get variables through mmf events things work fine but one thing i cannot seem to get running though is making comparisons within the actual lua code.

For example i try this code -

function Go()
  if string "test" = "working" then
    string "works" = "it works"
  else
    string "works" = "it does not work"
  end
end

and it highlights the text like it recognizes but after i have set the "test" string to "working" at start of frame and call the "Go" function when i try to receive the "works" variable it will return nothing. So i am fairly sure i am doing something wrong so i am hoping someone can explain how to do this correctly and also for floats as this would help a lot, thanks

[xyzzy]

you should be using '==' in your if test

[Atom]

Thanks, do you mean like -

function Go()
  if string "test" == "working" then
    string "works" = "it works"
  else
    string "works" = "it does not work"
  end
end

because it still doesn't work, if i test and set the string variable to "hi" at the start of the frame it receives it though. Is that how you would set the new strings within the code? it seems like it should work but not sure why it won't.

[Retriever2]

function Go()
  if myStringTest == "working" then
    stringWorks = "it works"
  else
    stringWorks = "it does not work"
  end
end

?

[Atom]

That doesn't seem to work either Retriever2

[xyzzy]

function Go()
  if myStringTest == "working" then
    stringWorks = "it works"
  else
    stringWorks = "it does not work"
  end
end

?

lol i didn't notice the string 'declarations' floating around in there

that's what i get for using parentheses-less function calls

EDIT: is this what you're trying to do?

[Atom]

xyzzy that works great, i can see what i was doing wrong now also. Thanks for the help everyone