Can someone spot what I'm missing here...

[Margaret MacDonald]

....before I lose what remains of my mind?

The problem is that the tetragraph 'PPLL' is apparently not being
recognised for some reason I can't begin to see.

The test code is:

echo 'before the if: ' . $field[10] . '<br>' ;
if ( $field[10] == 'PPLL' )
{
echo 'IN the if: ' . $field[10] . '<br>' ;
}
echo ' at the switch: ' . $field[10] . '<br>' ;

From which the output is:

before the if: PPLL
at the switch: PPLL
Originally it was not being seen as a case inside a switch (mentioned
in the last test code line). So I copied it into an IF in front of
the switch as you see in the test code. But it's still not being
seen.

Whatever's going on must be something simple and very *very* stupid,
but for the life of me I cannot see it.

A million grovelling thanks to anyone who spots it.

Margaret
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[Margaret MacDonald]

Found it. The database turns out not to be as clean as claimed: some
of the records still have extra spaces in some of the fields. Calling
trim() makes the problem go away.

*sigh*

I had written:

...before I lose what remains of my mind?

The problem is that the tetragraph 'PPLL' is apparently not being
recognised for some reason I can't begin to see.

The test code is:

echo 'before the if: ' . $field[10] . '<br>' ;
if ( $field[10] == 'PPLL' )
{
echo 'IN the if: ' . $field[10] . '<br>' ;
}
echo ' at the switch: ' . $field[10] . '<br>' ;

From which the output is:

before the if: PPLL
at the switch: PPLL
Originally it was not being seen as a case inside a switch (mentioned
in the last test code line). So I copied it into an IF in front of
the switch as you see in the test code. But it's still not being
seen.

Whatever's going on must be something simple and very *very* stupid,
but for the life of me I cannot see it.

A million grovelling thanks to anyone who spots it.

Margaret

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