Hello

This is a simple problem and I am sure it is staring me in the face. The page below loads and reads an XML value by get. The value will always be either "true" of "false". If I print the value to screen I can see clearly that it only every equals one of those 2 values, however, my if clause isn't working? That is, even though when $get is equal to false the text doesn't print. 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use LWP::Simple;
use XML::Simple;
use CGI;
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
my $q = CGI->new;
my $post = 'http://192.168.1.45/web/powerstate';

my $power = $q->param('power');

if($power eq "toggle")
        {
        get("$post"."?newstate=0");
}

print "<br />";

my $get = get($post);
chomp $get;
# THIS PART IS FAILING
if($get eq "false") {
        print "Box is currently on";
        }

print $get;


print <<HTML;
<form method="post" action="power.pl">
<input type="hidden" name="power" value="toggle">
<input type="submit" value="Change Power State">
</form>
</body>
HTML

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In reply to Posted Value "eq" not working by packetstormer

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