Hi monks, Once again back with a problem. I am reading from a file in which each line contains staremnet in the form 
$step1 1
$step2 1
$step3 1

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Now I am ryng to read this file and initialize some variables in my code but the variables are not getting initialized.Some problem is there with my logic..plz help me out..I am writting a sample code for your conviniennce 
#!/usr/bin/perl

my $step1;
my $step2;
my $step3;
my @array1;
my @array;
my $i = 0;
open(FILE, "assign");
$line = <FILE>;
while ($line ne ""){
        chomp($line);
        if($line =~ /^(\S+)\s+(\d+)$/) {
                print "inside\n";
                $hash{$1} = $2;
                $i++;
        }
        $line = <FILE>;
}
while( ($key, $value) = each %hash) {
        print "$key +> $value\n";
        $key = $value;
}


if($step1){
        print "first\n";
}
if($step2) {
        print "second\n";
}
if($step3) {
        print "thisrd\n";
}

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the print statement in the if loops are not getting executed and that where my problem lies

In reply to reading from a file and initializing a variable by s_gaurav1091

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