How to compare strings in GML

Question

After reading the documentation I have not found what is the correct way to compare two strings in GML. I've tried the comparator '==' and doesn't seem to work (probably compares that they are the same object, which they are not). Another thing I can think of is using string_pos function to get 0 if they are equal and -1 if not, but seems a little overkill. Is there a more efficient way of comparing two strings?

Answer 1

When comparing anything in GML, you have to use a single '='. Other than in javascript or c#.

so it would be:

if "test" = "test"{
    return true
}else{
    return false
}

the code above will return true

But to test variables in other objects, you would use [objectName].[variable] .