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Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 18:50:04 +1000
Subject: Re: A certainl part of an if() structure never gets executed.
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On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 6:41 PM, Nick the Gr33k <support@superhost.gr> wrot=
e:
> On 14/6/2013 11:28 =F0=EC, Jussi Piitulainen wrote:
>
>>>>> 'Parker' and 'May' and '2001'
>>
>> '2001'
>
>
> But why?
>
> that expression should return True since all stings are not empty.

It does. Not the bool value, but it does return a true value.

ChrisA