Text Compare

"Does this prompt contain 'watercolor'?" "Does this filename start with 'final'?" "Is this tag equal to that one?" Text Compare answers questions like that and hands you a boolean you can wire into a switch, gate, or conditional string node. It's the text-flavored sibling of the pack's Number Compare - the if-statement for strings.

It's part of DebugPadawan's ComfyUI Essentials, a pure-Python utility pack. The comparisons are plain Python string operations; no models, no GPU, nothing to download beyond the repo.

How it works

Three required inputs:

• text_a - the string being examined (multiline-friendly)
• text_b - the string being tested against it
• mode - the dropdown with five options: equals, not equals, contains, starts with, ends with

One optional input:

• case_sensitive - BOOLEAN, default True. Turn it off to compare case-insensitively (it lowercases both sides before comparing).

Two outputs:

• result - the BOOLEAN answer
• result_text - the same answer as the string "True" / "False"

The direction matters for contains, starts with, and ends with: they all test text_b against text_a. So for "does text_a contain text_b?", text_a is the haystack and text_b is the needle. Get them backwards and contains silently returns False.

Where you'll use it

• Conditional prompt handling. If a wildcard injected "cinematic", route the workflow down a different branch.
• Filename/tag checks. Gate a save or a style pass on whether a string starts with or contains a marker.
• Case-insensitive matching. Compare tags that might differ in case ("Flux" vs "flux") by flipping case_sensitive off.
• Feeding Logic Gate. Combine several text checks with AND/OR/NOT for richer conditions.

Installing it

Whole pack, one install. ComfyUI Manager, searching for "DebugPadawans-ComfyUI-Essentials," or:

cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes
git clone https://github.com/DebugPadawan/DebugPadawans-ComfyUI-Essentials

Then restart ComfyUI. Requirements (numpy, torch, opencv-python) are already satisfied by stock ComfyUI; no model downloads. When searching Manager, don't confuse it with cubiq's "ComfyUI Essentials" - a different, larger pack now in maintenance mode.

Gotchas

• Argument order. contains / starts with / ends with always test text_b in text_a. Wire them backwards and you'll chase a phantom bug.
• case_sensitive affects every mode, including equals - with it off, "Hello" equals "hello".
• Whitespace is not trimmed. "watercolor " with a trailing space does not equal "watercolor". If you're comparing raw user/wildcard text, trim or normalize first (the pack has a Text Trim node).
• It returns a BOOLEAN; a result_text string is there for display/debug convenience.
• Small, quiet pack - the source is the documentation.