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Q10896 - INFO: TEXTEQ

TEXTEQ tests if a specified variable text value is the text equivalent of a specified text string. The Result is either 1 if the compared text strings are equivalent and 0 if they are not.

SYNTAX:

TextEq(Vx, TextString, MatchCase)
where :
Vx is a text conditional variable x
TextString is the specified text string to compare the values of Vx to
MatchCase is used to specify whether or not you want the comparison to be case sensitive:

Set to 1: the case of the characters must be matched for a true (1) result
Set to 0: the case of the characters is not important when evaluating the strings

NOTES:

Commonly used in IF statements for evaluation purposes.

EXAMPLES:

V136 = TextEq(V1012, "Sunny", 0)

Variable 136 will be 1 on the days that text variable 1012 is "Sunny", ignoring the case of the letters:

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