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jbrave
Channel Surfer
16 years ago

parsing XML question

I'm getting an xml feed and trying to extract some data. With tags like <name>Joseph</name> it works just fine. but with With tags like: <file-count type="Integer">30</file-count> I get ...
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TheEndless
Roku Guru
15 years ago
"renojim" wrote:
"TheEndless" wrote:
In your If statement, you should be checking Count() on xmlFileCount, not on FileCountString.

If xmlFileCount <> invalid And xmlFileCount.Count() > 0 Then


Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that statement will crash to the debugger if xmlFileCount is invalid since both parts of the "if" are always evaluated.

-JT

That's not been my experience. In all of my testing, if the first evaluation fails, the second isn't evaluated.

I just tested again, and the following code prints "invalid"..

	test = invalid
	If test <> invalid And test.Count() > 0 Then
		print "test"
	Else
		print "invalid"
	End If