Questions tagged [pdfstrcmp]
{pdfstrcmp} is for questions about the pdfTeX primitive \pdfstrcmp, or equivalent primitives in other engines, for comparison of {strings}.
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Expandable case insensitive switch case for string comparison
I have spent the last few hours trying to come up with a good solution for my problem, but alas all solutions falls short. I want to create a switchcase for a function (In reality I need many ...
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how do I test for a unique string with multiple possibilities?
I'm writing a macro that takes a string and it returns an href based on that string. The string could have 150 different values. My question is how to write this in an efficient way. Using pdflatex.
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Override macro with \renewcommand{} multiple times from different files - toc addcontentsline
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While trying to get my head a round my current problem (To add a line to the toc, depending on the comparison of the values of two makros/commands: please see here: Add tocline depending on ...
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\pdfstrcmp or \strcmp in pure TeX
I'm trying to get LaTeX3 working with an old e-TeX kernel, and it fails due to the lack of \pdfstrcmp (or XeTeX's \strcmp equivalent).
Is there a pure TeX definition of \pdfstrcmp that I could insert ...
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Expansion in \numexpr...\relax versus \pdfstrcmp
The \numexpr...\relax construction in eTeX allows to evaluate numerical expressions, and it expands tokens fully as it goes.
The \pdfstrcmp{...}{...} construction in pdfTeX lets us compare two lists ...
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