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The tab character (U+0009), “ ”, is equal to zero.
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The empty space on the left side of the block contains a tab character.

It always equals it to 0, this is intended, and if it were removed, it would break projects, especially projects detecting if something is a string

selfexplanatory wrote:

It always equals it to 0, this is intended, and if it were removed, it would break projects, especially projects detecting if something is a string

I don't think that this is intended, because the only other thing equal to 0 is 0. I think that it would fix projects, and not break them. For example, a project I'm working on removes whitespace from a string, but, as a result of this bug, it also removes zeroes from the string.

try using this

or this

Kiska-7275 wrote:

try using this

or this

That works, but I still think that the scratch team should fix this bug.

Apparently this is because greater than/less than checks are used in the compare function and “ ” is less than “0”.

CST1229 wrote:

Apparently this is because greater than/less than checks are used in the compare function and “ ” is less than “0”.

That should mean:

but this is false.
That should not mean:

but this is true.

Greater than/less than checks are used only when "// At least one argument can't be converted to a number[, so] Scratch compares strings…”
The behavior in question seems like numeric comparison, not string comparison—these are both true: