It works fine for me when hardcoding the values into a script. 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

my %usernameInfo;
my $password = "phaEdrus3";
my $username = "Tony Barbieri";
$usernameInfo{$username} = $password;

if ( $password eq $usernameInfo{$username} ) {
        print "match\n";
} else {
        print "no match\n";
}

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So I would suggest that you will need to chomp the values that are either being inputted or being read from your flat file so as to remove the carriage returns (\n's).

cheers,
Anth

In reply to Re: Simple if Statement Not Acting Right? by anthski
in thread Simple if Statement Not Acting Right? by o2bwise

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