in reply to string compare matches incorrectly

use Text::CSV or at least chomp your input lines.

If handling line ends correctly is not the problem then, as others have suggested, show us sample code and data that fails.

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Re^2: string compare matches incorrectly
by sierpinski (Chaplain) on May 23, 2015 at 05:19 UTC
    Grandfather that was going to be my thought as well -- reading the input from a file would include the line breaks, so they need to be chomped in order to get an accurate comparison.
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