"1" = "001"?

[precisonline]

Just ran into an interesting thing with SB+.  Comparing strings of "1" = "001", SB+ thinks they're identical!  Now, I can see this as a numeric comparison, but not as a string comparison.  I guess I'll have to throw an extra character out there on both to get a true comparison, eh?

[DonQuixote]

sounds like that old saying. "A son is son until he gets a wife, a daughter is a daughter all her life".  In this case "A numeric is a numeric until he gets a string, a numeric is a numeric all her life".  Doesn't rhyme very well.

[DonQuixote]

The programming manual says to use EQS instead of EQ or =
That doesn't work on my system.
But, the following is the only thing I can find to convert a numeric to a string.
AA = QUOTE(1)
BB = QUOTE(001)
Now AA does not equal BB

[precisonline]

EQS might be only for $BASICTYPE "U"...