AppleScript string comparision never evaluate true in Alfred

[whiteboard speaker]

I am writing a script for an Alfred workflow. However, the string comparison never evaluates true. 

 

The "{query}" inside the script does get replaced with a correct ctext value type which I can obverse using display dialog "{query}" and display dialog class of "{query}".

 

 if "{query}" is equal to "a" then

   say "in the a case"

 else

   say "in the else case"

 end if

 

I have also tried use if "{query}" = "a" then but still have the same outcome.

 

The evaluation keeps falling to the else statement.

 

I am referring the article below when writing the conditional statements.

 

http://computers.tutsplus.com/tutorials/if-and-if-else-applescript-conditional-statements--mac-45590

 

Edited September 25, 2015 by li-xinyang

[deanishe]

I copy-pasted your code into an Alfred workflow and ran it. Works perfectly for me.