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jbrave
Channel Surfer
16 years ago

convert boolean to int?

?true=1
true

?false=0
false

?1+false
Type Mismatch

any way to get the numeric value of a boolean short of writing an if-then statement?
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  • TheEndless's avatar
    TheEndless
    Roku Guru
    16 years ago
    There's nothing in the SDK that I'm aware of, but I use a simple immediate if function for this kind of thing...

    Function IIf( Condition As Boolean, Result1 As Dynamic, Result2 As Dynamic ) As Dynamic
    	If Condition Then
    		Return Result1
    	Else
    		Return Result2
    	End If
    End Function

    Used like...

    ?IIf( True, 1, 0 )
  • jbrave's avatar
    jbrave
    Channel Surfer
    16 years ago
    Yeah, I was just hoping... a few languages let you treat true/false as 1/0, and you can save a few lines of code that way.

    - Joel
  • TheEndless's avatar
    TheEndless
    Roku Guru
    16 years ago
    I can't test it right now, but I'm pretty sure BrightScript treats 1 and 0 as true and false, but not the other way around.
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    TheEndless
    Roku Guru
    16 years ago
    Ok, just tested, and I can confirm that 0 evaluates to false, and everything else evaluates to true.