Comparing enumeration type to string

I've been away from DXL for 5 years.  Why can't I do this?

("Verification Method") is an enumerated type with 7 possible values)

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if (o."Verification Method) == "Demonstration") {  (etc.)

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This is flagged as "incorrect arguments for (==)".  Anyone know what's wrong?

Thanks, it's good to be back.

T

Re: Comparing enumeration type to string
Mike.Scharnow - Wed Jul 25 14:49:33 EDT 2018

o."Verification Method" is an attribute reference (AttrRef__) .

if you want to get the content of an attribute reference, just cast it to a string. Casting is done simply by concatenating it with another string, e.g. an empty string "".

So, your code should be 

if (o."Verification Method" "" == "Demonstration") {...