Hi,

This one bigtime perplexes me. This is for an assignment. For now, I am applying a horrible username password utility. All I am doing is inputing username and password and checking it against the values in a flat file, which I am loading into a hash.

I am using a simple if conditional and it seems it should be passing, but it isn't. Here is a snippet of the code:

print TEST "\n\nJust before if statement:\n";
print TEST "Password entered:\t\t$password\n";
print TEST "Username entered:\t\t$userName\n";
print TEST "Hash value for key $userName:\t$usernameInfo{$userName}\n"
+;

if ( $password eq $usernameInfo{$userName} )

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And here is my TEST output: 
Just before if statement:
Password entered:                    phaEdrus3
Username entered:                    Tony Barbieri
Hash value for key Tony Barbieri:    phaEdrus3

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I am looking RIGHT AT the frigging strings that I am comparing. They are identical. And yet...the conditional does not return a true. It goes to the else section.

Does anyone know what the heck is going on??? Maybe I have to chomp something?

Thanks In Advance,

Tony

In reply to Simple if Statement Not Acting Right? by o2bwise

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