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Message: [QUOTE="Jason, post: 1482238"] Hi, below is example code which demonstrates a problem I have encountered. When passing a number to a function I compare it with a string's size and then take certain actions, unfortunately during the testing of it I discovered that negative numbers were being treated as if they were > 0. I compiled the following on mingw compiler/dev c++/windows xp. If I replace string.size() for a ordinary number it behaves as expected? I notice string.size() returns size type and not an int but how do I deal with that? Thanks in advance for any help #include <iostream> #include <stdlib.h> #include <string> using namespace std; void something(int); int main() { something(-1); system("PAUSE"); return 0; } void something(int number) { string str = "sdfjksdflksdjfkjsklfjsklfj"; if(number < str.size()) { cout << " hello" << endl; } else { cout << " eek" << endl; } } [/QUOTE]