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From: Pablo Rodriguez <oinos@gmx.es>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: comparing strings
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 19:51:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55FAFD92.10606@gmx.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55FAF7D5.8080409@gmail.com>

On 09/17/2015 07:26 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>> Pablo Rodriguez 17. September 2015 18:47
>> [...]
>> \unexpanded\def\MyUpper#1%
>> {\ctxlua{document.gouppercase("#1")}}
>>
>> \starttext
>> \doif{\MyUpper{adfalkjfaeñf}}{\MyUpper{aDFAlkjfaeñf}}{equal}{unequal}
>>
>> Why are are the first two strings unequal?
>
> You can’t use a unexpandable (which you created with \unexpanded) in
> ConTeXts \doifXXX commands.

Many thanks for your reply, Wolfgang.

I see. I thought it was better to add \unexpanded before a pure \def.

Is it \unexpaded required before a \def with more than one argument?

(Sorry, but expansion is a concept which I’m not familiar with.)

> PS. You need \doifelse and not \doif.

I realized this too sending the message to the list.



Pablo
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-17 16:47 Pablo Rodriguez
2015-09-17 17:26 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2015-09-17 17:51   ` Pablo Rodriguez [this message]

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