in reply to why dosn't my code work?

== is for comparing numbers, eq is for comparing strings. See perlop.

(And in general it's helpful to tell us in what way your code "doesn't work").

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Re^2: why dosn't my code work?
by tweetiepooh (Hermit) on Apr 21, 2009 at 09:45 UTC
    Additionally comparing to a fixed text need that value in quotes 
    if ($value eq "string")

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      While it is correct that one should quote strings, it's by no means required (unless one uses strict, which again is highly recommended). 
      $ perl -E 'if (foo eq "foo") { say STDOUT yes } '
yes

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      I really don't recommend it, but it does work without quotes.

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