Why pick by comparison doesn't compare strings?

Hello there,

Ashley

Just noticed, that it's not possible to compare strings in the "Pick by comparison". Why not? It would be so handy to write something like this:

Pick Objects

Object.Name

=! Not equal

"Red" | "Green" | Blue

And what about picking like this ?

This will of course work, but if you have more complex picking conditions, involving another comparisons, this "or-blocks" start to get very messy and under some circumstances doesn't work.

And you can save lots of space, if it would be possible to pick by comparing strings expressions.

Ho, sorry, I misunderstood you. Yes, having a pickByComparison working with strings would be nice, and my solution was just a work-around to do with this problem. You are right, it would help and be more user-friendly.

Good point, fixed for the next build so you can also use strings. Note however your given example still won't work. | is a logical operator that returns 0 or 1, so you'll be comparing the object name (string) to 0 or 1 (number) which will never be true. You could instead do that (and this works already) using 'Pick by evaluate' with an expression like:

(Object.Name = "Red") | (Object.Name = "Green") | (Object.Name = "Blue")

Oh, that's nice.

But, in the pickByEvaluate it's not possible to use "not equal" !=

See the manual entry on expressions, Construct 2's notation is: <>

Ah, thanks. Now I leveled up my "picking" knowledge!

That's powerful: PickByEvaluate: (Object.Name<>"Red") & (Object.Name<>"Blue") & (Object.Name<>"Green")

The operator <> is listed in the manual, but it's not described as "not equal". And this notation is not very obvious.