Native Boolean Variables in Macro Scheduler

[evangelmike]

Greetings! I have been researching whether there are native Boolean variables in Macro Scheduler. To do this, I executed the following code:

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Let>MyString=Stryng
Let>Cat={%MyString%="Stryng"}
// Thus the variable Cat should be a Boolean True

If>{%Cat%="true"}
   MessageModal>Cat3 is %Cat%
Endif
If>{%Cat%="True"}
   MessageModal>Cat1 is %Cat%
Endif
If>{%Cat%="TRUE"}
   MessageModal>Cat2 is %Cat%
Endif

It is instructive to note that the only message displayed when the above code is executed is:
Cat2 is TRUE

This tells me that the Macro Scheduler Boolean True is the string TRUE, not the string True or the string true. Likewise, the Macro Scheduler Boolean False is the string FALSE, not the string False or false. Any comments will be gladly welcomed.

Sincerely,

Michael D Fitzpatrick
Reg. US Patent Agent

[evangelmike]

Greetings! I have further researched native Boolean variables in Macro Scheduler. Consider the following code:

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Let>MyString=Stryng
Let>Cat={%MyString%="Stryng"}
// Thus the variable Cat should be a Boolean True

If>{%Cat%=1}
   MessageModal>Cat3 is %Cat%
Endif

If>{%Cat%="TRUE"}
   MessageModal>Cat2 is %Cat%
Endif

It is instructive to note that the only message displayed when the above code is executed is:
Cat2 is TRUE

This tells me that the Macro Scheduler Boolean True is the string TRUE, not even the value 1. Likewise, the Macro Scheduler Boolean False is the string FALSE, not even the value 0. Any comments will be gladly welcomed.

Sincerely,

Michael D Fitzpatrick

[Marcus Tettmar]

No, Macro Scheduler knows only of strings and numbers. There is no real boolean type in regular Macro Scheduler code. Only inside complex expressions and VBScript. As you have found, if passed out of complex expressions they will be seen as strings ("TRUE" or "FALSE").

[Me_again]

I hope nobody has patented TRUE and FALSE