I'm parsing a CSV file and the third Column of the first row is always named 'Azimuth'.

The first time I look at $Azimuth while parsing, it's value will be "Azimuth".

Every other time I want to assign $Azimuth a value inside my "if($Azimuth != 'Azimuth')" statement.

But if $Azimuth is anything else besides "Azimuth", my HTML table isn't printing "Print This A LOT!!"

Why isn't $Azimuth updating with "Print This A LOT!!" inside my "if" statement or otherwise showing up in my HTML block? 
my ($Y1, $X1, $Azimuth, $Y2, $X2, $Device) = $csv->fields;

if ($Azimuth != 'Azimuth') {$Azimuth = "Print This A LOT!!";}


    
print <<EOF;
    <tr>
        <td width="0" height="0">$Y1</td>
        <td width="0" height="0">$X1</td>
        <td width="0" height="0">$Azimuth</td>
        <td width="0" height="0">$Y2</td>
        <td width="0" height="0">$X2</td>
    <td width="0" height="0">$Device</td>
    </tr>
EOF

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Update: Changed "$Azimuth != 'Azimuth'" to "$Azimuth ne 'Azimuth'". I'm comparing text so the != numeric comparator won't work!

In reply to Can't update variable - Local variable problem? by awohld

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