diff --git a/src/ObjLoading/Game/T6/BSP/Linker/MapEntsLinker.cpp b/src/ObjLoading/Game/T6/BSP/Linker/MapEntsLinker.cpp
index 09c43af7..8a293297 100644
--- a/src/ObjLoading/Game/T6/BSP/Linker/MapEntsLinker.cpp
+++ b/src/ObjLoading/Game/T6/BSP/Linker/MapEntsLinker.cpp
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ namespace
             {
                 std::string className;
                 entity.at("classname").get_to(className);
-                if (className.compare("worldspawn") != 0)
+                if (className != "worldspawn")
                 {
                     con::error("ERROR: first entity in the map entity string must be the worldspawn class!");
                     return false;
diff --git a/src/ZoneCommon/Zone/Definition/Parsing/Sequence/SequenceZoneDefinitionMetaData.cpp b/src/ZoneCommon/Zone/Definition/Parsing/Sequence/SequenceZoneDefinitionMetaData.cpp
index 8b40c24f..b435bef8 100644
--- a/src/ZoneCommon/Zone/Definition/Parsing/Sequence/SequenceZoneDefinitionMetaData.cpp
+++ b/src/ZoneCommon/Zone/Definition/Parsing/Sequence/SequenceZoneDefinitionMetaData.cpp
@@ -146,11 +146,12 @@ void SequenceZoneDefinitionMetaData::ProcessMatch(ZoneDefinitionParserState* sta
                        {
                            return std::tolower(c);
                        });
-        if (valueLowerCase.compare("sp") == 0)
+
+        if (valueLowerCase == "sp")
             state->SetMapType(ZoneDefinitionMapType::SP);
-        else if (valueLowerCase.compare("mp") == 0)
+        else if (valueLowerCase == "mp")
             state->SetMapType(ZoneDefinitionMapType::MP);
-        else if (valueLowerCase.compare("zm") == 0)
+        else if (valueLowerCase == "zm")
             state->SetMapType(ZoneDefinitionMapType::ZM);
         else
             throw ParsingException(valueToken.GetPos(), "map must be SP, MP or ZM");