Comparing characters in Rebol 3
character, codepoint, rebol, rebol3, unicode
Solution
So `"a"` in Rebol is not a character, it is actually a string.
A single unicode character is its own independent type, with its own literal syntax, e.g. `#"a"`. For example, it can be converted back and forth from INTEGER! to get a code point, which the single-letter string `"a"` cannot:
>> to integer! #"a"
== 97
>> to integer! "a"
** Script error: cannot MAKE/TO integer! from: "a"
** Where: to
** Near: to integer! "a"
A string is not a series of one-character STRING!s, it's a series of CHAR!. So what you want is therefore:
character: #"a"
word: "aardvark"
(first word) = character ;-- true!
(Note: Interestingly, binary conversions of both a single character string and that character will be equivalent:
>> to binary! "μ"
== #{CEBC}
>> to binary! #"μ"
== #{CEBC}
...those are UTF-8 byte representations.)
Problem
I am trying to compare characters to see if they match. I can't figure out why it doesn't work. I'm expecting `true` on the output, but I'm getting false. ``` character: "a" word: "aardvark" (first word) = character ; expecting true, getting false ```