John,

> Ahem and Andy are correct. Ignore Wieser.

I would suggest you listen do dumbass sorry, Dumas there, even though Ahem
and Andy said the same as I did and did not post a solution either.

And even though dumbass, sorry, Dumas there has nothing to add to what Ahem,
Andy and I already said - other pointing out something that isn't part of
your problem and also doesn't often exist (understatement) in simple words
like you used.


As for the solution ?   I overthought it.    The problem is that the FORCE
variable may be an empty string.  The solution ?  Make sure that the
compared-with string is never empty.  How ?   Prefix a character - and do
the same to the other side of the comparision.

In short, something like this:

change

${FORCE} = "1"

to

"!"${FORCE} = "!1"

Thats all. :-)

Regards,
Rudy Wieser

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