Not A Path Comparison not working.

I ran across this tonight, and it seems a little weird to me. I have a path that shows as "<Not A Path>" in probes and in the control/indicator, but the NaN/Path/Refnum? function returns false. I suspect it has something to do with how this path was created (I used path to string, some string operations, and then string to path on it), but I would still expect the comparison to return True. Any thoughts or insights? I used Flatten to String to look at the path, and it is clearly different from the Not A Path Constant. I can use File/Directory Info instead, and then check for an error, but this is annoying. The vi is saved in LV8.6.
Chris
Message Edited by C. Minnella on 02-05-2009 06:39 PM
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Darren wrote:
P.P.S. - Is this worth a nugget?
Here's an example of the nugget:
Message Edited by JoeLabView on 02-06-2009 02:58 PM
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