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From: steiner@topaz.rutgers.edu (Dave Steiner)
Newsgroups: comp.text,ru.qa.tex
Subject: Re: Strange Event in LaTeX
Message-ID: <Feb.12.23.44.24.1990.24232@topaz.rutgers.edu>
Date: 13 Feb 90 04:44:25 GMT
References: <Feb.12.13.07.48.1990.20578@math.rutgers.edu>
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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To: carllee@math.rutgers.edu
Cc: steiner

In article <Feb.12.13.07.48.1990.20578@math.rutgers.edu> carllee@math.rutgers.edu (Carl Lee) writes:

> \long\def\text#1{\long\def\textx{#1}}
> \long\def\print{\if\empty\textx\else{Text: \textx}\fi}

Change your \if to an \ifx.  \if will test if the character codes
agree and will expand it's arguments so you were really comparing the
first two tokens of \textx.  \ifx will compare tokens without
expansion.

ds
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