Re: comparing binary numbers with strings

[Merick <Merick_TeVaran@...>]

Shmuel Zeigerman wrote:
> Merick wrote:
> > I was wondering if there was any way - other than using a for loop to 
> > iterate through each character - to use the string library to compare 
> > two strings with representations of binary numbers and tell whether 
> > or not any of the 1's in the strings are in the same position?
> >
> > Something like compare("11100", "00011") would return false and 
> > compare("11100","00111") would return true
>
> function compare(a,b)
>   a = tostring(tonumber(a) + tonumber(b))
>   return a:match"2"
> end
Dangit, that's so simple I can't believe I didn't think of it myself!

Thanks