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I need to be able to compare some month names I have in an array. It would be nice if there were some direct way like: Month.toInt("January") > Month.toInt("May") My Google searching seems to suggest the only way is to write your own method, but this seems like a common enough problem that I would think it would have been already implemented in .Net, anyone done this before? James Curran DateTime.ParseExact(monthName, "MMMM", CultureInfo.CurrentCulture ).Month Although, for your purposes, you'll probably be better off just creating a Dictionary<string, int> mapping the month's name to its

I was playing around in jsfiddle.net and I'm curious as to why this returns true? if(0 < 5 < 3) { alert("True"); } So does this: if(0 < 5 < 2) { alert("True"); } But this doesn't: if(0 < 5 < 1) { alert("True"); } Is this quirk ever useful? Order of operations causes (0 < 5 < 3) to be interpreted in javascript as ((0 < 5) < 3) which produces (true < 3) and true is counted as 1, causing it to return true. This is also why (0 < 5 < 1) returns false, (0 < 5) returns true, which is interpreted as 1 , resulting in (1 < 1) . My guess is because 0 < 5 is true, and true < 3 gets cast to 1 < 3 which is

As part of the base class for some extensive unit testing, I am writing a helper function which recursively compares the nodes of one XmlDocument object to another in C# (.NET). Some requirements of this: The first document is the source , e.g. what I want the XML document to look like. Thus the second is the one I want to find differences in and it must not contain extra nodes not in the first document. Must throw an exception when too many significant differences are found, and it should be easily understood by a human glancing at the description. Child element order is important, attributes