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The scenario: reading a date in a yyyy-mm-dd form from a file to a cs. This cs later gets compared to a 'current date' macro to write a few args in a specific way to an external file. The current day macro is along the lines of



% defTODAY{}
% defToday{theyear-TwoDigits{themonth}-TwoDigits{theday} }
defTODAY{xdefToday{theyear-TwoDigits{themonth}-TwoDigits{theday}}}


This works for the labeling things, since ref{yyyy-mm-dd} works as intended. Having no extra TODAY and then using def'd Today does so to, it's the comparison that's not working. etoolbox's ifstrequal is not what I used before. Whenever the date would change I used a single xdef and later passed that macro to a ifx, and to get it to work I had to define the date with a appended. edit Read to my amazement inserts a single space after whatever's been read.



Currently I'm supposedly fixing things, but I broke it somehow, and now it doesn't match at all. The first culprit was the my TwoDigits cmd was robust, changing it back to def instead of NewDocumentCommand fixed that. The latter is for user-level commands, so I'll let that slip. But the results of the mwe are not clear to me.



0.txt contains one line with 2001-01-01 and a line new afterwards, as if one line had been written to it and the output had been closed.



The questions:




  1. What the 'right' way to compare things (macro, cs, command?) are that (should) expand to strings?

  2. Why don't edef, xdef work here, I thought it was a full expansion, and indeed before (my version control is nigh absent so I can't give a mwe for this) it worked.

  3. What is the significance of robustness? Is there a simple rule of thumb when it's necessary, obligatory, or irrelevant?

  4. It working with xstring's IfStrEqual only if the is inserted in the definition of datemacro, rather than in the comparison's brackets, i.e., {datemacro }. Why?


  5. ifstrequal supposedly doesn't expand- I used once in a command to test if an arguments is equal to &, this works- is #1 becoming whatever was input not count as an expansion?


example 1;



documentclass{article}
usepackage[top=1.5cm, bottom=0.6cm, hmargin=1.5cm]{geometry}
usepackage{etoolbox}
newreadperiods
openinperiods=0.txt
begin{document}setlengthparindent{0pt}fontsize{20}{20}selectfont
deftesti{2001-01-01}
edeftestii{2001-01-01}
deftestiii{2001-01-01 }
edeftestiiii{2001-01-01 }
globalreadperiods to DDD

ifstrequal{testi}{2001-01-01}{T\}{F\}% F
ifstrequal{testii}{2001-01-01}{T\}{F\}% F
ifstrequal{testiii}{2001-01-01}{T\}{F\}% F
ifstrequal{testiiii}{2001-01-01}{T\}{F\}% F
ifstrequal{DDD}{2001-01-01}{T\}{F\}% F

ifstrequal{testi}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
ifstrequal{testii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
ifstrequal{testiii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
ifstrequal{testiiii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
ifstrequal{DDD}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% T

ifx{testi}{2001-01-01} T\else F\fi% F
ifx{testii}{2001-01-01} T\else F\fi% F
ifx{testiii}{2001-01-01} T\else F\fi% F
ifx{testiiii}{2001-01-01} T\else F\fi% F
ifx{DDD}{2001-01-01} T\else F\fi% F

ifx{testi}{DDD} T\else F\fi% F
ifx{testii}{DDD} T\else F\fi% F
ifx{testiii}{DDD} T\else F\fi% F
ifx{testiiii}{DDD} T\else F\fi% F
ifx{DDD}{DDD} T\else F\fi% F

ifcsequal{testi}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
ifcsequal{testii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
ifcsequal{testiii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
ifcsequal{testiiii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
ifcsequal{DDD}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F

ifdefequal{testi}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
ifdefequal{testii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
ifdefequal{testiii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% T
ifdefequal{testiiii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% T
ifdefequal{DDD}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% T
end{document}


example 2;



documentclass{article}
usepackage[top=1.5cm, bottom=0.6cm, hmargin=1.5cm]{geometry}
usepackage{etoolbox,xstring}
defTwoDigits#1{ifnum#1<10 0#1else#1fi}

newcountmonth
month 1relax
newcountday
day 1relax
newreadperiods
openinperiods=0.txt
globalreadperiods to DDD

deftesti{2001-TwoDigits{themonth}-TwoDigits{theday}}%
edeftestii{2001-TwoDigits{themonth}-TwoDigits{theday}}%
deftestiii{2001-TwoDigits{themonth}-TwoDigits{theday} }%
edeftestiiii{2001-TwoDigits{themonth}-TwoDigits{theday} }%

begin{document}setlengthparindent{0pt}
DDD is DDD.% space between cs and .

ifstrequal{testi}{2001-01-01}{T\}{F\}% F
ifstrequal{testii}{2001-01-01}{T\}{F\}% F
ifstrequal{testiii}{2001-01-01}{T\}{F\}% F
ifstrequal{testiiii}{2001-01-01}{T\}{F\}% F
ifstrequal{DDD}{2001-01-01}{T\}{F\}% F

ifstrequal{testi}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
ifstrequal{testii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
ifstrequal{testiii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
ifstrequal{testiiii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
ifstrequal{DDD}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% T

ifxtesti{2001-01-01} T\else F\fi% F
ifxtestii{2001-01-01} T\else F\fi% F
ifxtestiii{2001-01-01} T\else F\fi% F
ifxtestiiii{2001-01-01} T\else F\fi% F
ifxDDD{2001-01-01} T\else F\fi% F

ifxtestiDDD T\else F\fi% F
ifxtestiiDDD T\else F\fi% F
ifxtestiiiDDD T\else F\fi% F
ifxtestiiiiDDD T\else F\fi% T
ifxDDDDDD T\else F\fi% T

ifcsequal{testi}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
ifcsequal{testii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
ifcsequal{testiii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
ifcsequal{testiiii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
ifcsequal{DDD}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F

ifdefequal{testi}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
ifdefequal{testii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
ifdefequal{testiii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
ifdefequal{testiiii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% T
ifdefequal{DDD}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% T

IfStrEq{testi}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
IfStrEq{testii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
IfStrEq{testi }{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
IfStrEq{testii }{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
IfStrEq{testiii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% T
IfStrEq{testiiii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% T
IfStrEq{DDD}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% T

end{document}








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    The scenario: reading a date in a yyyy-mm-dd form from a file to a cs. This cs later gets compared to a 'current date' macro to write a few args in a specific way to an external file. The current day macro is along the lines of



    % defTODAY{}
    % defToday{theyear-TwoDigits{themonth}-TwoDigits{theday} }
    defTODAY{xdefToday{theyear-TwoDigits{themonth}-TwoDigits{theday}}}


    This works for the labeling things, since ref{yyyy-mm-dd} works as intended. Having no extra TODAY and then using def'd Today does so to, it's the comparison that's not working. etoolbox's ifstrequal is not what I used before. Whenever the date would change I used a single xdef and later passed that macro to a ifx, and to get it to work I had to define the date with a appended. edit Read to my amazement inserts a single space after whatever's been read.



    Currently I'm supposedly fixing things, but I broke it somehow, and now it doesn't match at all. The first culprit was the my TwoDigits cmd was robust, changing it back to def instead of NewDocumentCommand fixed that. The latter is for user-level commands, so I'll let that slip. But the results of the mwe are not clear to me.



    0.txt contains one line with 2001-01-01 and a line new afterwards, as if one line had been written to it and the output had been closed.



    The questions:




    1. What the 'right' way to compare things (macro, cs, command?) are that (should) expand to strings?

    2. Why don't edef, xdef work here, I thought it was a full expansion, and indeed before (my version control is nigh absent so I can't give a mwe for this) it worked.

    3. What is the significance of robustness? Is there a simple rule of thumb when it's necessary, obligatory, or irrelevant?

    4. It working with xstring's IfStrEqual only if the is inserted in the definition of datemacro, rather than in the comparison's brackets, i.e., {datemacro }. Why?


    5. ifstrequal supposedly doesn't expand- I used once in a command to test if an arguments is equal to &, this works- is #1 becoming whatever was input not count as an expansion?


    example 1;



    documentclass{article}
    usepackage[top=1.5cm, bottom=0.6cm, hmargin=1.5cm]{geometry}
    usepackage{etoolbox}
    newreadperiods
    openinperiods=0.txt
    begin{document}setlengthparindent{0pt}fontsize{20}{20}selectfont
    deftesti{2001-01-01}
    edeftestii{2001-01-01}
    deftestiii{2001-01-01 }
    edeftestiiii{2001-01-01 }
    globalreadperiods to DDD

    ifstrequal{testi}{2001-01-01}{T\}{F\}% F
    ifstrequal{testii}{2001-01-01}{T\}{F\}% F
    ifstrequal{testiii}{2001-01-01}{T\}{F\}% F
    ifstrequal{testiiii}{2001-01-01}{T\}{F\}% F
    ifstrequal{DDD}{2001-01-01}{T\}{F\}% F

    ifstrequal{testi}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
    ifstrequal{testii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
    ifstrequal{testiii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
    ifstrequal{testiiii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
    ifstrequal{DDD}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% T

    ifx{testi}{2001-01-01} T\else F\fi% F
    ifx{testii}{2001-01-01} T\else F\fi% F
    ifx{testiii}{2001-01-01} T\else F\fi% F
    ifx{testiiii}{2001-01-01} T\else F\fi% F
    ifx{DDD}{2001-01-01} T\else F\fi% F

    ifx{testi}{DDD} T\else F\fi% F
    ifx{testii}{DDD} T\else F\fi% F
    ifx{testiii}{DDD} T\else F\fi% F
    ifx{testiiii}{DDD} T\else F\fi% F
    ifx{DDD}{DDD} T\else F\fi% F

    ifcsequal{testi}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
    ifcsequal{testii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
    ifcsequal{testiii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
    ifcsequal{testiiii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
    ifcsequal{DDD}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F

    ifdefequal{testi}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
    ifdefequal{testii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
    ifdefequal{testiii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% T
    ifdefequal{testiiii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% T
    ifdefequal{DDD}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% T
    end{document}


    example 2;



    documentclass{article}
    usepackage[top=1.5cm, bottom=0.6cm, hmargin=1.5cm]{geometry}
    usepackage{etoolbox,xstring}
    defTwoDigits#1{ifnum#1<10 0#1else#1fi}

    newcountmonth
    month 1relax
    newcountday
    day 1relax
    newreadperiods
    openinperiods=0.txt
    globalreadperiods to DDD

    deftesti{2001-TwoDigits{themonth}-TwoDigits{theday}}%
    edeftestii{2001-TwoDigits{themonth}-TwoDigits{theday}}%
    deftestiii{2001-TwoDigits{themonth}-TwoDigits{theday} }%
    edeftestiiii{2001-TwoDigits{themonth}-TwoDigits{theday} }%

    begin{document}setlengthparindent{0pt}
    DDD is DDD.% space between cs and .

    ifstrequal{testi}{2001-01-01}{T\}{F\}% F
    ifstrequal{testii}{2001-01-01}{T\}{F\}% F
    ifstrequal{testiii}{2001-01-01}{T\}{F\}% F
    ifstrequal{testiiii}{2001-01-01}{T\}{F\}% F
    ifstrequal{DDD}{2001-01-01}{T\}{F\}% F

    ifstrequal{testi}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
    ifstrequal{testii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
    ifstrequal{testiii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
    ifstrequal{testiiii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
    ifstrequal{DDD}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% T

    ifxtesti{2001-01-01} T\else F\fi% F
    ifxtestii{2001-01-01} T\else F\fi% F
    ifxtestiii{2001-01-01} T\else F\fi% F
    ifxtestiiii{2001-01-01} T\else F\fi% F
    ifxDDD{2001-01-01} T\else F\fi% F

    ifxtestiDDD T\else F\fi% F
    ifxtestiiDDD T\else F\fi% F
    ifxtestiiiDDD T\else F\fi% F
    ifxtestiiiiDDD T\else F\fi% T
    ifxDDDDDD T\else F\fi% T

    ifcsequal{testi}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
    ifcsequal{testii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
    ifcsequal{testiii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
    ifcsequal{testiiii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
    ifcsequal{DDD}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F

    ifdefequal{testi}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
    ifdefequal{testii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
    ifdefequal{testiii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
    ifdefequal{testiiii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% T
    ifdefequal{DDD}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% T

    IfStrEq{testi}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
    IfStrEq{testii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
    IfStrEq{testi }{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
    IfStrEq{testii }{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
    IfStrEq{testiii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% T
    IfStrEq{testiiii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% T
    IfStrEq{DDD}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% T

    end{document}








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      The scenario: reading a date in a yyyy-mm-dd form from a file to a cs. This cs later gets compared to a 'current date' macro to write a few args in a specific way to an external file. The current day macro is along the lines of



      % defTODAY{}
      % defToday{theyear-TwoDigits{themonth}-TwoDigits{theday} }
      defTODAY{xdefToday{theyear-TwoDigits{themonth}-TwoDigits{theday}}}


      This works for the labeling things, since ref{yyyy-mm-dd} works as intended. Having no extra TODAY and then using def'd Today does so to, it's the comparison that's not working. etoolbox's ifstrequal is not what I used before. Whenever the date would change I used a single xdef and later passed that macro to a ifx, and to get it to work I had to define the date with a appended. edit Read to my amazement inserts a single space after whatever's been read.



      Currently I'm supposedly fixing things, but I broke it somehow, and now it doesn't match at all. The first culprit was the my TwoDigits cmd was robust, changing it back to def instead of NewDocumentCommand fixed that. The latter is for user-level commands, so I'll let that slip. But the results of the mwe are not clear to me.



      0.txt contains one line with 2001-01-01 and a line new afterwards, as if one line had been written to it and the output had been closed.



      The questions:




      1. What the 'right' way to compare things (macro, cs, command?) are that (should) expand to strings?

      2. Why don't edef, xdef work here, I thought it was a full expansion, and indeed before (my version control is nigh absent so I can't give a mwe for this) it worked.

      3. What is the significance of robustness? Is there a simple rule of thumb when it's necessary, obligatory, or irrelevant?

      4. It working with xstring's IfStrEqual only if the is inserted in the definition of datemacro, rather than in the comparison's brackets, i.e., {datemacro }. Why?


      5. ifstrequal supposedly doesn't expand- I used once in a command to test if an arguments is equal to &, this works- is #1 becoming whatever was input not count as an expansion?


      example 1;



      documentclass{article}
      usepackage[top=1.5cm, bottom=0.6cm, hmargin=1.5cm]{geometry}
      usepackage{etoolbox}
      newreadperiods
      openinperiods=0.txt
      begin{document}setlengthparindent{0pt}fontsize{20}{20}selectfont
      deftesti{2001-01-01}
      edeftestii{2001-01-01}
      deftestiii{2001-01-01 }
      edeftestiiii{2001-01-01 }
      globalreadperiods to DDD

      ifstrequal{testi}{2001-01-01}{T\}{F\}% F
      ifstrequal{testii}{2001-01-01}{T\}{F\}% F
      ifstrequal{testiii}{2001-01-01}{T\}{F\}% F
      ifstrequal{testiiii}{2001-01-01}{T\}{F\}% F
      ifstrequal{DDD}{2001-01-01}{T\}{F\}% F

      ifstrequal{testi}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
      ifstrequal{testii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
      ifstrequal{testiii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
      ifstrequal{testiiii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
      ifstrequal{DDD}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% T

      ifx{testi}{2001-01-01} T\else F\fi% F
      ifx{testii}{2001-01-01} T\else F\fi% F
      ifx{testiii}{2001-01-01} T\else F\fi% F
      ifx{testiiii}{2001-01-01} T\else F\fi% F
      ifx{DDD}{2001-01-01} T\else F\fi% F

      ifx{testi}{DDD} T\else F\fi% F
      ifx{testii}{DDD} T\else F\fi% F
      ifx{testiii}{DDD} T\else F\fi% F
      ifx{testiiii}{DDD} T\else F\fi% F
      ifx{DDD}{DDD} T\else F\fi% F

      ifcsequal{testi}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
      ifcsequal{testii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
      ifcsequal{testiii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
      ifcsequal{testiiii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
      ifcsequal{DDD}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F

      ifdefequal{testi}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
      ifdefequal{testii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
      ifdefequal{testiii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% T
      ifdefequal{testiiii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% T
      ifdefequal{DDD}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% T
      end{document}


      example 2;



      documentclass{article}
      usepackage[top=1.5cm, bottom=0.6cm, hmargin=1.5cm]{geometry}
      usepackage{etoolbox,xstring}
      defTwoDigits#1{ifnum#1<10 0#1else#1fi}

      newcountmonth
      month 1relax
      newcountday
      day 1relax
      newreadperiods
      openinperiods=0.txt
      globalreadperiods to DDD

      deftesti{2001-TwoDigits{themonth}-TwoDigits{theday}}%
      edeftestii{2001-TwoDigits{themonth}-TwoDigits{theday}}%
      deftestiii{2001-TwoDigits{themonth}-TwoDigits{theday} }%
      edeftestiiii{2001-TwoDigits{themonth}-TwoDigits{theday} }%

      begin{document}setlengthparindent{0pt}
      DDD is DDD.% space between cs and .

      ifstrequal{testi}{2001-01-01}{T\}{F\}% F
      ifstrequal{testii}{2001-01-01}{T\}{F\}% F
      ifstrequal{testiii}{2001-01-01}{T\}{F\}% F
      ifstrequal{testiiii}{2001-01-01}{T\}{F\}% F
      ifstrequal{DDD}{2001-01-01}{T\}{F\}% F

      ifstrequal{testi}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
      ifstrequal{testii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
      ifstrequal{testiii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
      ifstrequal{testiiii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
      ifstrequal{DDD}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% T

      ifxtesti{2001-01-01} T\else F\fi% F
      ifxtestii{2001-01-01} T\else F\fi% F
      ifxtestiii{2001-01-01} T\else F\fi% F
      ifxtestiiii{2001-01-01} T\else F\fi% F
      ifxDDD{2001-01-01} T\else F\fi% F

      ifxtestiDDD T\else F\fi% F
      ifxtestiiDDD T\else F\fi% F
      ifxtestiiiDDD T\else F\fi% F
      ifxtestiiiiDDD T\else F\fi% T
      ifxDDDDDD T\else F\fi% T

      ifcsequal{testi}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
      ifcsequal{testii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
      ifcsequal{testiii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
      ifcsequal{testiiii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
      ifcsequal{DDD}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F

      ifdefequal{testi}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
      ifdefequal{testii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
      ifdefequal{testiii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
      ifdefequal{testiiii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% T
      ifdefequal{DDD}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% T

      IfStrEq{testi}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
      IfStrEq{testii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
      IfStrEq{testi }{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
      IfStrEq{testii }{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
      IfStrEq{testiii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% T
      IfStrEq{testiiii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% T
      IfStrEq{DDD}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% T

      end{document}








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      The scenario: reading a date in a yyyy-mm-dd form from a file to a cs. This cs later gets compared to a 'current date' macro to write a few args in a specific way to an external file. The current day macro is along the lines of



      % defTODAY{}
      % defToday{theyear-TwoDigits{themonth}-TwoDigits{theday} }
      defTODAY{xdefToday{theyear-TwoDigits{themonth}-TwoDigits{theday}}}


      This works for the labeling things, since ref{yyyy-mm-dd} works as intended. Having no extra TODAY and then using def'd Today does so to, it's the comparison that's not working. etoolbox's ifstrequal is not what I used before. Whenever the date would change I used a single xdef and later passed that macro to a ifx, and to get it to work I had to define the date with a appended. edit Read to my amazement inserts a single space after whatever's been read.



      Currently I'm supposedly fixing things, but I broke it somehow, and now it doesn't match at all. The first culprit was the my TwoDigits cmd was robust, changing it back to def instead of NewDocumentCommand fixed that. The latter is for user-level commands, so I'll let that slip. But the results of the mwe are not clear to me.



      0.txt contains one line with 2001-01-01 and a line new afterwards, as if one line had been written to it and the output had been closed.



      The questions:




      1. What the 'right' way to compare things (macro, cs, command?) are that (should) expand to strings?

      2. Why don't edef, xdef work here, I thought it was a full expansion, and indeed before (my version control is nigh absent so I can't give a mwe for this) it worked.

      3. What is the significance of robustness? Is there a simple rule of thumb when it's necessary, obligatory, or irrelevant?

      4. It working with xstring's IfStrEqual only if the is inserted in the definition of datemacro, rather than in the comparison's brackets, i.e., {datemacro }. Why?


      5. ifstrequal supposedly doesn't expand- I used once in a command to test if an arguments is equal to &, this works- is #1 becoming whatever was input not count as an expansion?


      example 1;



      documentclass{article}
      usepackage[top=1.5cm, bottom=0.6cm, hmargin=1.5cm]{geometry}
      usepackage{etoolbox}
      newreadperiods
      openinperiods=0.txt
      begin{document}setlengthparindent{0pt}fontsize{20}{20}selectfont
      deftesti{2001-01-01}
      edeftestii{2001-01-01}
      deftestiii{2001-01-01 }
      edeftestiiii{2001-01-01 }
      globalreadperiods to DDD

      ifstrequal{testi}{2001-01-01}{T\}{F\}% F
      ifstrequal{testii}{2001-01-01}{T\}{F\}% F
      ifstrequal{testiii}{2001-01-01}{T\}{F\}% F
      ifstrequal{testiiii}{2001-01-01}{T\}{F\}% F
      ifstrequal{DDD}{2001-01-01}{T\}{F\}% F

      ifstrequal{testi}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
      ifstrequal{testii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
      ifstrequal{testiii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
      ifstrequal{testiiii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
      ifstrequal{DDD}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% T

      ifx{testi}{2001-01-01} T\else F\fi% F
      ifx{testii}{2001-01-01} T\else F\fi% F
      ifx{testiii}{2001-01-01} T\else F\fi% F
      ifx{testiiii}{2001-01-01} T\else F\fi% F
      ifx{DDD}{2001-01-01} T\else F\fi% F

      ifx{testi}{DDD} T\else F\fi% F
      ifx{testii}{DDD} T\else F\fi% F
      ifx{testiii}{DDD} T\else F\fi% F
      ifx{testiiii}{DDD} T\else F\fi% F
      ifx{DDD}{DDD} T\else F\fi% F

      ifcsequal{testi}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
      ifcsequal{testii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
      ifcsequal{testiii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
      ifcsequal{testiiii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
      ifcsequal{DDD}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F

      ifdefequal{testi}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
      ifdefequal{testii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
      ifdefequal{testiii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% T
      ifdefequal{testiiii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% T
      ifdefequal{DDD}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% T
      end{document}


      example 2;



      documentclass{article}
      usepackage[top=1.5cm, bottom=0.6cm, hmargin=1.5cm]{geometry}
      usepackage{etoolbox,xstring}
      defTwoDigits#1{ifnum#1<10 0#1else#1fi}

      newcountmonth
      month 1relax
      newcountday
      day 1relax
      newreadperiods
      openinperiods=0.txt
      globalreadperiods to DDD

      deftesti{2001-TwoDigits{themonth}-TwoDigits{theday}}%
      edeftestii{2001-TwoDigits{themonth}-TwoDigits{theday}}%
      deftestiii{2001-TwoDigits{themonth}-TwoDigits{theday} }%
      edeftestiiii{2001-TwoDigits{themonth}-TwoDigits{theday} }%

      begin{document}setlengthparindent{0pt}
      DDD is DDD.% space between cs and .

      ifstrequal{testi}{2001-01-01}{T\}{F\}% F
      ifstrequal{testii}{2001-01-01}{T\}{F\}% F
      ifstrequal{testiii}{2001-01-01}{T\}{F\}% F
      ifstrequal{testiiii}{2001-01-01}{T\}{F\}% F
      ifstrequal{DDD}{2001-01-01}{T\}{F\}% F

      ifstrequal{testi}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
      ifstrequal{testii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
      ifstrequal{testiii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
      ifstrequal{testiiii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
      ifstrequal{DDD}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% T

      ifxtesti{2001-01-01} T\else F\fi% F
      ifxtestii{2001-01-01} T\else F\fi% F
      ifxtestiii{2001-01-01} T\else F\fi% F
      ifxtestiiii{2001-01-01} T\else F\fi% F
      ifxDDD{2001-01-01} T\else F\fi% F

      ifxtestiDDD T\else F\fi% F
      ifxtestiiDDD T\else F\fi% F
      ifxtestiiiDDD T\else F\fi% F
      ifxtestiiiiDDD T\else F\fi% T
      ifxDDDDDD T\else F\fi% T

      ifcsequal{testi}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
      ifcsequal{testii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
      ifcsequal{testiii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
      ifcsequal{testiiii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
      ifcsequal{DDD}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F

      ifdefequal{testi}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
      ifdefequal{testii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
      ifdefequal{testiii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
      ifdefequal{testiiii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% T
      ifdefequal{DDD}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% T

      IfStrEq{testi}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
      IfStrEq{testii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
      IfStrEq{testi }{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
      IfStrEq{testii }{DDD}{T\}{F\}% F
      IfStrEq{testiii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% T
      IfStrEq{testiiii}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% T
      IfStrEq{DDD}{DDD}{T\}{F\}% T

      end{document}






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