String comparision never evaluate true in Alfred

Question

I am writing a script for an Alfred workflow. However, the string comparison never evaluates true.

The "{query}" inside the script does get replaced with a correct ctext value type which I can obverse using display dialog "{query}" and display dialog class of "{query}".

if "{query}" is equal to "a" then
    say "in the a case"
else
    say "in the else case"
end if

I have also tried use if "{query}" = "a" then but still have the same outcome.

The evaluation keeps falling to the else statement.

I am referring the article below when writing the conditional statements.

http://computers.tutsplus.com/tutorials/if-and-if-else-applescript-conditional-statements--mac-45590

Answer 1

It's not normal, debug it with this script, maybe the string contains an invisible character.

set t to "{query}"
display dialog "The ID of 'a' is " & id of "a" --> the  id of a is  97
repeat with i in t -- check the id of every character in "{query}"
    display dialog "The ID of '" & i & "' is " & id of i
end repeat
if t is equal to "a" then
    say "in the a case"
else
    say "in the else case"
end if