Hi Terry - Disclaimer: I'm a Zope Newbie... Here's what I'd try: Length of the value of Area is: <dtml-var expr="_.len(Area)"><br> Length of the 'strip'ped value of Area is: <dtml-var expr="_.len(_.string.strip(Area))"><br> If you see somethinkg like: Length of the value of Area is: 4 (or more) Length of the 'strip'ped value of Area is: 3 when you view the DTML method, you have either white space in your Area variable or a linefeed charater, or... If that's the case, here's a working if statement: <dtml-if "_.string.strip(Area)=='BIS'"> You could also try: <dtml-if "_.string.find(Area, 'BIS')>0"> which will search for an instance of 'BIS' in the value of the Area variable Hope it helps, Eric. // -----Original Message----- // From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of Terry // Babbey // Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 1:37 PM // To: zope@zope.org // Subject: [Zope] dtml-if problem // // // The following will not evaluate true and I am stumped again. // // <dtml-if "Area == 'BIS'"> // // Area is a variable I am passing to my method and I want to check to // see if the variable is set to BIS, but it never returns true even // though a <dtml-var Area> displays BIS. // // Confused as always, // Terry // // -- // __________________________________________________________________ // Terry Babbey // Technical Support Specialist // Lambton College, Sarnia, Ontario, Canada // __________________________________________________________________ // // // // _______________________________________________ // Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org // http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope // ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** // (Related lists - // http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce // http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ) // __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. http://im.yahoo.com/