Disregard. This was a problem in the return value from get_value(), not the while loop test. Sorry to bother everyone.

Got this simple while loop: 

  sleep 60;
  my $status;

  while(!(($status = get_value()) eq 'initializing')) {
    sleep 10;
  }

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The $status is set to the value returned by the get_value() function. When the value returned is no longer 'initializing', I want the loop to terminate. However, the while loop never terminates. It keeps going even when get_value() returns 'ok' and I'm not sure why. I've tried a few different iterations of this code to no avail.

This simplified version code works as expected:

use strict;
use warnings;
my $count = 0;
my $status;

while (($status = gv() eq 'initializing')) {
  print 'stuck in loop' . "\n";
}

sub gv {
  $count ++;
  return 'initializing' if $count < 5;
  return 'ok';
}

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But when I try to duplicated this in my real world code, it doesn't work.

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