# Flash ignoring math - please help!

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**Created:** [March 27, 2005, 4:51am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-ignoring-math-please-help/142264 "2005-03-27T04:51:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![Shard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Shard](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Shard)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2005, 4:51am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-ignoring-math-please-help/142264/1 "2005-03-27T04:51:59Z")

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I know this sounds strange - but that’s what’s been happening to me. I have this simple if(condition \>= textfield && condition \<= another textfield){ statement that works everywhere except in my movie. I can even create another movie with only that logic and it performs correctly. Can anyone think of a way to get flash to stop ignoring this line …

for(e = 0; e \< \_global.dates.length-1; e++){  
if(\_global.dates[e] \>= rstart.text && \_global.dates[e] \<= rend.text){  
\_root.mc.zdate.text += \_global.dates[e] + "  
";  
}  
}

The only other way I can do this is to perform an xpath query on an xml file (which works fine) except that I can’t then perform subsequent searches on nodes in the result (and tracing always shows the xpath conditions and then the string value?).

Any help would be gretly appreciated as I have this project finished by tomorrow.