# \[X\] $eql failure
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-eql-failure/5796
**Category:** No Bugs
**Created:** [November 26, 2007, 12:01am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-eql-failure/5796 "2007-11-26T00:01:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chrisjj)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2007, 12:01am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-eql-failure/5796/1 "2007-11-26T00:01:18Z")
$eql fails to output true when expected even though its result is interpreted as expected by $if.
Help says: returns true, if x equals y.
but from "$eql(1,1)" expected "true", got "".
From "$if($eql(1,1),true,false)" expected "true", got "true".
That from the following Export script:
```
Help says: $eql(x,y) returns true, if x equals y.
but from "$eql(1,1)" expected "true", got "".
From "$if($eql(1,1),true,false)" expected "true", got "true".
```
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2007, 8:40pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-eql-failure/5796/2 "2007-11-26T20:40:06Z")
The help doesn't say anything about how true manifests itself.
It's not a bug.
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### Author:  [@chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chrisjj)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2007, 9:16pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-eql-failure/5796/3 "2007-11-26T21:16:55Z")
The help doesn't say anything about how anything manifests itself! 😉 So I assumed true, like numbers and strings, manifests itself as itself.
> It's not a bug.
OK!
Workaround for this non-bug: $if($eql(1,1),true,false) outputs true.
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### Author:  [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2007, 9:47pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-eql-failure/5796/4 "2007-11-26T21:47:15Z")
> [@chrisjj](#):
>
> The help doesn't say anything about how anything manifests itself! 😉 So I assumed true, like numbers and strings, manifests itself as itself.
>
> > It's not a bug.
> > OK!
> > Workaround for this non-bug: $if($eql(1,1),true,false) outputs true.
Hmm ...
$if2($eql(1,1),0)
simply returns nothing for itself (but an imaginary invisible value of trueness), but that can't be true, because help files says that $if2 returns the value of the first parameter, if it is 'true'.
Those boolean functions should always return manifest values like 0 for false and 1 for true to allow mathematical calculations and so on.
DD.20071126.2346.CET
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2018, 2:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-eql-failure/5796/5 "2018-12-28T14:20:56Z")
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