hi people...
Back again to seek you wisdom and guidance on a particularly weird and frustrating problem... SO here goes...

I'm trying to compare the elements of an array with each cell of an excel sheet and print the one that matches... i know this looks pretty simple .... But i've been facing a weird problem:
when i print the array and the cell individually , i can easily make out the similar values,.. but when i compare the values,the code doesnt seem to realize it .. it jus treats it as a different element(eg it treats 1 and 1 as diff). I've been using strict , warnings and diagnostics.. but none seem to find any error...
i've tested the rest of the code.. the trouble some part is given below: 
 foreach $ray(@cellr)
    {
        if($ray eq $worksheet->{Cells}[$row][1]->{Val} )
        {
        
        print "$ray :yes\n";
         }
         else
         { 
             next;
        
         }
     }

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Easy enough right ..??? Now there is a another way(comparatively difficult and inefficient ) by means of pattern match but i dont want to go there.. Help please..!! i dnt think its a problem with the files coz i am able to read and print the values perfectly.. its the comparison (for some reason) thats starting to bug me nw ...Any ideas what can cause such a problems ?? THanks.!!

In reply to Weird excel parsing problem by reaper9187

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