"StringComparison.CurrentCulture" How to tell the outcome?

Unity Engine
1

Hello everyone,

I’m messing around with comparing “strings” from different “grid cells”. I have the grind cells marked by numbers and am messing with comparing the cell number “objects” by name and stumbled upon a “string.Compare” method and was wondering where the outcome of the compared method is placed?

So say it went something like this,

        public object objects;

        public int CompareTo()
        {
            if (objects == null) return 1;

            Block checkRightSpace = objects as Block;
            if (checkRightSpace != null)
                return string.Compare(this.name, checkRightSpace.name, StringComparison.CurrentCulture);
            else
                throw new ArgumentException("Object is not a MatchPieceType");
        }

How do I tell if they matched? Something like a debug to see if they did match.

2

Hey there,
string.Compare will return zero when the strings are equal in the sort order. You can check the return value for this case and print out whatever you like. I would caution you, however, that comparing many strings can have a substantial impact on your games performance if you are comparing thousands of them each frame. Stick to integers if you need to make many comparisons.