Equals Operator

Checks whether to strings are equal. Comes in two flavors, Equals and EqualsIgnoreCase.

What	Type
Syntax	Equals[IgnoreCase](a, b)
a	any
b	any
Return type	bool

Example: Equals($firstName, "Martin")

Infix Notation

The Equals operator (not the EqualsIgnoreCase) can also be noted infix using the = operator.

Prefix Notation	Infix Notation
Equals($status, "004")	$status="004"
Equals(Length($lastName), 10)	Length($lastName)=10
Equals(LowerCase($city), LowerCase($deliveryCity))	LowerCase($city)=LowerCase($deliveryCity)

The = can be made to behave as the EqualsIgnoreCase operator generally by using an operator configuration (see below).

Operator Configuration

By using the following XML code in the configuration file, the Equals operator may be generally made behave as the EqualsIgnoreCase operator; additionally, it can be specified to ignore differences in CR/LF behavior, i.e. return true if the only difference is in CR+LF vs. LF (Windows vs. Linux):

<OperatorConfigs>
  <OperatorConfig name="Equals">ignorecase,ignorecrlf</OperatorConfig>
</OperatorConfigs>

This also applies to the infix = operator, which is why it may be useful to apply this operator configuration.