DROPDOWNLIST databound and unbound

[femina]

i have a confusion
please help me with the reason
in my ASP.NET web page i have two drop down list
DropDownLis1 is unbound and DropDownList2 is data bound to my table named Employee

//unbound (items are Apples,Oranges,Grapes,Fruits)
string s="",str="";
foreach (ListItem li in DropDownList1.Items) 
        {
           bool b = li.Text.Equals("Apples");   //true for Apples
            str += b;  //true for Apples
            if (b) //li.Text.Equals("Apples"))
            {
              s += " the Selection is " + li.Text+" ";
            }
            s += li.Text;
        }
        Label1.Text = s +" str "+str;

//bound ( Employee table has employee names //Femina,ramya,jyothi,Nilafer,Fayaz)
string ss = "";
       foreach (ListItem li in DropDownList2.Items)
       {
        bool b = li.Text.Equals("Femina"); //here its never true but dont know why
            
            if (li.Text.Equals("Femina")) //not executed at all 
            {
                ss += " selection is " + li.Text +" ";
            }
            ss += li.Text;
        }
        Label4.Text += ss;

so in these two DDLs DropDownList1 works fine
but the DropDownList2 never returns true when it compares against Femina please help me with the reason behind this
sorry for the lengthy question and thanks in advance

[cloud255]

Off the top of my head, string.equals() is case sensitive, so check for that. maybe making everything lower case will help:

bool b = ls.Text.toLower().Equals(testString.toLower());

[femina]

i checked it out sir(with my Employee table also),
its Femina only
no problem with the case

[cloud255]

Is it possible that "Femina", your first entry, is not part of the dataset which is returned from the database? Have you created a break point before the loop starts and verified that "Femina" is indeed in in the drop down list?

It's very strange that all the other names work and this one doesn't ...

[femina]

sir i sorted out the problem
my SQLSERVER Employee table had empname datatype as nchar(10)
so Femina had still 4 spaces after the word
i changed it to nvarchar(25) and the problem was sorted out
thanks for the attention given to my question

[r035198x]

sir i sorted out the problem
my SQLSERVER Employee table had empname datatype as nchar(10)
so Femina had still 4 spaces after the word
i changed it to nvarchar(25) and the problem was sorted out
thanks for the attention given to my question

Some people make it a point to always TRIM the data before any string comparisons.

[femina]

so my table design also does not need to be modified
thanks so much