Hi, I know there are many questions similar to mine and I have read through quite a few of them but, still, I am none the wiser. I understand in a way that Node-red is not, and never will be, restricted to a logic gate process but still, when a node is supposed to be a logic gate, and I am unable …

I noticed in the given flow that in switch node Soc 50% , the evaluationis done on string and not number, how does that work? [image]

Ah! Thanks for that. I had no idea what I was doing! I don't know how it works but it seems to once I made the topics different.

may be NR treats strings that look like numbers as numbers?

[image] smanjunath211: NR treats strings that look like numbers as numbers? No! Strings are compared character by character. "51" is greater than "50" but "100" is less than "50"

Ah! That's good to know. In fact it would have worked for all numbers in the range (a percentage) up to but not including 100. At that point it would have failed and I would be scratching my head again.

If you want to compare numbers then you should convert them from String type to Number first.

you missed the conversation i believe. there was an inadvertant setting mistake in switch node, which was noticed, and since 'string' value happen to evaluate as expected, the error was not noted. [image] smanjunath211: I noticed in the given flow that in switch node Soc 50% , the evaluationis…

So are the actual values coming in Strings or Numbers?

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jbudd 3 July 2023 15:29 43

Well yes except "49" < "7" etc.

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