Legacy GM Comparing xscales

[Sk8dududu]

Although I have found a workaround, it is a pain in the ass and I would like to condense this down to as little/simple as possible.
What I would like to achieve is for my character object to compare it's xscale value to the enemy when they collide. (Think like a hungry fish type game, if you are the larger fish, then you can eat the smaller fish)
What I had tried first is the following:
Character, collision event with enemy

if image_xscale >= other image_xscale{
do stuff}

Now I understand that this just doesn't work, and why, but I don't know how to write it so that it only effects the other object its colliding with, without making a variable and multiple collision events.

 

[TheouAegis]

That does work if you wrote it right.

Collision Event:
if image_xscale >= other.image_xscale {
instance_destroy(other);
image_xscale+=0.5;
}

You could do it in code, but it's the same thing.

 

[Sk8dududu]

That does work if you wrote it right.

Collision Event:
if image_xscale >= other.image_xscale {
instance_destroy(other);
image_xscale+=0.5;
}

You could do it in code, but it's the same thing.

Lmao I actually only forgot 1 period? ffs