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

Yeah, that will teach me to post some contrived code to the list :)
But the production code is really working that way, String.Compare doesn't
return zero for
strings that seem to be equally to me.

At first I thought the internal representation of the strings where not
equal, so I logged the length of the strings.
But even their lengths are the same! :S

Anyone another idea how to tackle this?

A lot of entries that fail contain an i, so I immediately thought about the
turkish-i problem,
but I have found another entry that failed to without an i in it:
romA vs ROMA

// Ryan

On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Simon Robinson <[email protected]>wrote:

> It works fine for me (other than that your code doesn't compile because
> you need String.Format(....) inside the exception constructor).
>
> Are you sure there isn't at typo or something in your code?
>
> My test code is:
>
> // code works fine - string.Compare() returns 0 so no exception
> string str1 = "-mylife";
> string str2 = "-MYLIFE";
> if (0 != string.Compare(str1, str2, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
> {
>  string msg = string.Format("Compare failed str1:({0}) length:{1}
> str2:({2}) length:{3}", str1, str1.Length, str2, str2.Length);
>  throw new Exception(msg);
> }
>
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