beginner "if statement" question

[deborah]

In the same line as my last question.... once I tried to understand how 
Perl was interpreting string comparisons, I started experimenting with 
different strings.

What is Perl doing here? Why doesn't it use the "if" statement as a 
condition? It reassigns the variable value instead of using it as a 
conditional statement in the following code:

$password=bill;
if ($password = 'howard') {
        print "'$password' is a valid password.\n";
}else {
        print "'$password' is not valid.\n";
}
*******
This results in a printout that says: 'howard' is a valid password.
Thank you again,

Deborah

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