I hope someone can help me here, I need to compare the month entered by the user I.E. as a date say 08 for the month of august but I ran into a snag between 07 and 08 I can only get it to work as an 8 but I need it as 08 for file naming. if I use 08 I get an error for illegal octal but I dont on say 07 for July. I've tried ==, eq, '08' "08" and about everything else but I'm still stuck. Is this a bug? or can I get some help? thanks.... still learning 
if ($month eq 07 || 7) { 
    $monthStamp = "July";
        print "$monthStamp";
}
if ($month eq 08 || 8) {
    $monthStamp = "August";
        print "$monthStamp";
}

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