Do what FunkyMonk said. Also, when you show us what you are doing, you're being just a little bit too terse; seeing larger parts of your actual code might help us help you better (not too large - remove as much as you can while still leaving enough to create the problem).

I can think of three possible problems you might be having, other than simple syntax misuse: one of your strings might have a newline at the end, making them not exactly equal; $prod and $preprod could be referring to different hashes than you expect; $siebdb could be something different than you expect either when storing the values in the hash or when doing the comparison.

We'd really have to see more of your code to tell what's up.

In reply to Re^3: pattern match showes true by ysth
in thread pattern match showes true by Anonymous Monk

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