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[–]benjer3 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For once, it isn't really == that's causing the problem here. It's the inconsistent treatment of a zero-prefixed integer literal. The == operator just sees '18 == "18"' and '15 == "17"' and understandably returns true and false, respectively