Flow Designer IF statement wrongly evaluating as True!

[Community Alums]

Hello,

I am building a flow and is appears to me as if this if statement is wrongly evaluating as true. Here are two examples, one when comparing sys_ids and the other comparing strings, "Start" and "Stop."

In both cases, since the sys_ids match (the one starting in 1dd...) and the "Start" matches "Start" it should evaluate as false. Below is the action for the strings, and the sys_id action is the same but with hardcoded sys_ids. 

Am I missing something obvious? or is this IF statement truly not working?

Thanks,
Dan

[Uncle Rob · Accepted solution]

"Does start != start"?   FALSE
New Query:  "Does start != stop"?  TRUE

Therefore TRUE

So this looks like its evaluating correctly.

[Brian Lancaster]

When doing two not statements you need to use and instead of or. 

[Community Alums]

Thank you guys, makes sense!  Too many hours in front of the computer screen for me perhaps on this one...

[Uncle Rob]

All devs are entitled to 1 double-negative confusion per dev cycle.