I want to compare two values in a cgi script. One is a string passed from a form to the cgi script, and the other is a string value taken from a mysql database. This is the code i am using to compare the two values 

my $usr;
$usr = $dbh->prepare(q{SELECT user_id from user where user_id = ?});
$usr->execute($user_name);

if($user_name eq $usr)
{

#Do something here

}

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In the above i am trying to pass a value from the 'user' table into the variable $usr, and then compare it to the value in $user_name. The problem is that the value in $usr is not a string as expected, when i print it to the screen it appears as DBI::st=HASH(0x83d7068) Can anybody tell me why this happens? And if there is anyway to compare these two values. Thanks

In reply to compare two values in perl by Anonymous Monk

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