Hello all,

I've been racking my brains over this for the past 2 days and I cannot figure out what is the problem with my code.

I'd really appreciate it if someone could help me. Let me explain the problem before I paste my code here:

I have written an SNMP trap handler which should write the traps received into 2 different flat files, based on the source of the trap. I have this information in a config file that it reads from. Once I've read it I store it in <ip>,<server> format in an array. When I actually receive the trap, I loop through the array and find the IP using reg exp. Now, herein lies the problem: it doesn't match! I've printed both separately, and they are exactly same. So why wouldn't they match? Below is the code:

my $configFile = "servers.conf";
open (DAT, $configFile);
my @fileContents = <DAT>;
close DAT;

my $str;
my @allServers;
my @bigArray;

foreach $str (@fileContents) {
    if ($str =~ /^\w/)
    {
        push (@allServers, $str);
    }
}

my $size = scalar(@allServers);

my %hashArray;
foreach $str (@allServers) {
    my ($server, $ip) = split ("=", $str);
    $ip =~ s/^\s+//;
    $ip =~ s/\s+$//;
    push (@bigArray, $ip . "," . $server);
    $hashArray{$ip} = $server;
}

my ($key, $value, $idx);

foreach $str (@bigArray)
{
print $str . "\n"; # This prints all values correctly
}

#while (($key, $value) = each (%hashArray)) {
#    print LOG "$key-$value\n";
#}
# above while statement too prints all correctly

my $var;

#   Read the trap info...
my $trapInfo = TrapInfo->new(); # simply creates a new object with hos
+tname, ip address and var binds

print LOG "TrapInfo ipAddr:" . $trapInfo->ipAddress . "--\n";
$var = $trapInfo->ipAddress;

## Please note that following part of code (foreach, if 
## exists, while) doesn't work
## It doesn't give any error; simply says no match
foreach $str (@bigArray)
{
    print LOG "$str\n";
    if ($str eq $var)
    {
      print "IP address matched. Proceed to log trap!\n";
      last;
    }
    else
    {
      print "Match not found.\n";
    }
}
print "After for\n";
if (exists ($hashArray{$trapInfo->ipAddress}))
{
    print $trapInfo->ipAddress . " exists!\n";
}
while (($key, $value) = each (%hashArray)) 
{
    print "KEY: $key--\n";
    print "TrapInfo ipAddr: " . $trapInfo->ipAddress . "--\n";
    if ($key eq $trapInfo->ipAddress)
    {
        print "IP Matches!\n";
    }
}
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I'd be thankful if you could help me find where is the problem :)

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