Struggling with basics

[Reinhold Birkenfeld]

Jason wrote:
> Rather than reply to those individuals, just a big "thanks" to those 
> that have helped.
> 
> It's definitely making sense, the fact that I need to show the 
> two-element tuple to show correctly was one of those head-slapping moments.
> 
> And Dennis Lee Bieber hit the nail on the head when he mentioned that 
> I'd declared the initial scores as strings, yet I was comparing them 
> against integers.  I simply removed the single-quotes from the scores 
> and everything slotted into place.
> 
> Again, I now have the list working, apart from the list is reversed (as 
> per Dennis Lee Bieber mentioned).  I'm afraid I don't understand what 
> you mean about the DIFF report but I'll investigate further and learn a 
> bit more.

Please bear in mind: If you just remove the quotes from '00050', you will get
a value of 40. This is because integer literals with leading zeroes are inter-
preted as octal.

Reinhold