first of all remove that '=' sign and use '==' . again
to compare the strings use 'eq'.
--- pravesh biyaNI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello
> Here is a very simple prblem which unfortunatly i
> am not able to solve.
> I want to compare a character to a variable and do
> accordingly. I am
> using an if loop for this!!
>
> but it seems that even if the variable is not equal
> to that character,
> it is entering the loop.. i am not able to figure
> out the prblm!!
>
> here is the code:
>
>
> for( my $j =0 ; $j < $line_number ; ++$j)
> {
>
> if ( $rows[0][$j] = 'E' )
> {
> print " iam here \n";
> print " the value of the first element is
> $rows[0][$j] and the value of
> the sequence number is $rows[5][$j] \n";
> if( $packet_number != $rows[5][$j])
> {
> print "i am also here in $ch_count \n";
> ++($loss);
> }
> ++ $packet_number ;
> }
> else
> {
> print " the value of count is $j \n";
> }
> }
>
>
>
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