Re: boolean localization problem

Alex K. Angelopoulos schrieb:
Heinz,
It really is a boolean. What you're seeing is an artifact of using MsgBox for output display. MsgBox coerces certain data types to localized strings.

I would avoid words like "artifact", "coerce", or "mangling". All
display functions dutifully convert the data to be shown to a (localized)
text representation (probably by using CStr() internally).

If you're worried about localization issues, I would avoid using MsgBox unless really needed for actual _choices_ to be made. Instead, use WScript.Echo.

WScript.Echo behaves exactly like MsgBox; so why the "instead"? When
communicating with a user, using "True", "Wahr", or "vrai", ... seems
appropriate to me. That's why I don't like the next proposal at all.

If you do need to use MsgBox - or InputBox, it has the same issues - for getting feedback from a user, coerce the value to an integer before displaying it. The value will then be rendered as a number.

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