I'm finding it strange encountering this problem. Basically, I'm constructing two variables - $string1 and $string2. When I eval a $query (($string2 eq 'GREAT') && ($minimum eq '78%')) using $string1, it works fine. But when I run the same eval using $string2, it doesn't work. $string1 is a hardcoded string and $string2 is obtained by splitting a longer string. I trimmed the input and then put it in $string2 but still it doesn't seem to work. When I do the following: 
if($string1 eq $string2) {
    print "SAME";
}

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It doesn't print out anything. But when i print both the strings on the terminal, they look exactly the same so I suspect something else is going wrong. Can someone kindly help me out please?

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