Really confused

[milfredo]

Here is a piece of code. The first version works fine.


if filedate =Tdate and Right$(f$, 3) = "jcp"    then

bob = 22

goto [moveon]




But this version does not work


if filedate =Tdate and Right$(f$, 3) = "jcp" or filedate =Tdate and Right$(f$, 3) = "drf" or filedate =Tdate and Right$(f$, 3) = "mcp" then

bob = 22

goto [moveon]



the Tdate and Right$(f$, 3) = "jcp" is true but for some reason the line of code does not recognize it to be true when the 2nd version is the code.

sure could use some help.
Thanks
Milfredo

[Chris Iverson]

I'm not sure, but I think this might be a problem with order of operations. It evaluates the ANDs and ORs directly, left-to-right, and I think it may not be what you intend.

Try grouping the separate conditions you're testing in parenthesis, with the ORs in parens.

if ((filedate =Tdate and Right$(f$, 3) = "jcp") or (filedate =Tdate and Right$(f$, 3) = "drf") or (filedate =Tdate and Right$(f$, 3) = "mcp"))  then

[milfredo]

Thank you. I'll give it a shot.