Help,
I've writen a small piece of code that compares a string to a hash with if exists. If I set the value in the script manual ie $test="10.20.47.13" the test at if exists works, but if I read in the value from a file with open, the test fails? I print the value before the if statment and it looks ok? Why is the string different when read from a file? I did try chomp but it did not help. I also tried this with "eq" in an if statment and again the test failed? 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
my $dir="/home/lcollins";
open MISS, "$dir/miss" or die "can't open $!";# file has 1 line "10.20
+.46.13".
%clocks=("10", 0,"10.20.20.10", 0,"10.20.46.13", 0,"10.20.46.37",0);
my $miss=<MISS>;
#chomp $miss;
#my $miss="10";
print "$miss"
if (exists $clocks{$miss}){
print "Yup it's there\n";
}

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