Re: [Templates] Can't comparing strings (strings are treated as numbers)

> Well that isnt a string per-se,

On Dec 23, 2004, at 12:42 PM, Sean T Allen wrote:

> Well that isnt a string per-se,
> its a date...
>
> pirint "good\n" if ( '2004-11-23' < '2004-11-26' );
>
> doesnt print good either...
>

Yes, but print "good\n" if ( "2004-11-23" lt "2004-11-26" ); does what 
you expect.  you can't use a numeric compare in perl for strings.  I 
don't know if TT has the necessary magic to compare as string instead 
of as numeric in the underlying perl code.

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