Re: String.Compare seems to fail when it should not

Correct me as I may be all wrong but I thought dotnet recommends that you
not count on -1,0,1 being indicators for true and false? Have I got this
all wrong (extremely likely)?

John Warner




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Discussion of advanced .NET topics.
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ryan Heath
> Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 10:18 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] String.Compare seems to fail when
> it should not
>
>
> Hi,
>
> See following snippet,
>
> if (0 != string.Compare(str1, str2,
> StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
> {
>   throw new Exception("Compare failed str1:({0}) length:{1}
> str2:({2}) length:{3}", str1, str1.Length, str2, str2.Length); }
>
> it throws, for instance, with "Compare failed str1:(-mylife) length:7
> str2:(-MYLIFE) length:7"
>
> Obviously something is really wrong here...
> Has anyone seen this behavior before, or has anyone some tips
> how to investigate this problem?
>
> // Ryan
>
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