G'Day Peter,
 
-=> Quoting Peter Collis to Frank Adam <=-
 PC> Whats wrong with if(strcmp("bla","bla") == 0) dothat();
 PC> in both cases you will more than likely end up with the code
 PC> CALL  strcmp
 PC> CMP   AX, 0
Well, i was talking about the source's clearity, not the resulting code.. 
As for compiling,i don't know how well Basic optimizes it's code, but i 
assume they've had made some improvements since VB1.  
Btw, basic does have it's strcmp like function now, with a nice touch, 
where an optional argument can determine binary or textual comparison,that 
eliminates the need for a separate stricmp() like function.                      
There's also "like" and "is" both of which returns
boolean or NULL. 
                                                                           
                    
  L8r Frank (fadam{at}ozemail.com.au).                                        
                                                                           
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