I am new to perl and am trying to get what I thought was a simple eq statement to work but something seems to be wrong with my syntax. This is the code I am running 

    for ($y = 0; $y < $length ; $y++ ) { 
        my($arg);
         $arg = $_[$y];  
        if ( length $arg == 1 ) {
            $and = $and . " AND j$y.LumbolValue = '$arg' " ; 
        } elsif ( $arg eq "vowel\n"){ 
            $and = $and . " AND j$y.Vowel = 1 " ;   
        } elsif ( $arg eq "consonant\n"){ 
            $and = $and . " AND j$y.Consonant = 1 " ;  
        } elsif ( $arg eq "alpha\n"){ 
            $and = $and . " AND j$y.Letter = 1 " ; 
        } else  {
            $and = $and . " /* else:  y: $y arg: [$arg] */  " ;
        }
    }

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On every iteration only the "else" block runs and my output is basically: 
/* else: y: 0 arg: [vowel] */ /* else: y: 1 arg: [c] */ /* else: y: 2 
+arg: [e] */ /* else: y: 3 arg: [consonant] */

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I originally tried writing the eq statements without \n but added those chracters after is supposedly was helpful to someone else. Thanks in advance for any help, I have been stuck on this for over an hour so any help would be extremely welcome.

In reply to eq statement not working by Anonymous Monk

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