[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am trying to Compare 2 strings for an if statement in an admin
> script. $slurp is an entire file, and $file is a name.
> what i would like to do is compare the 2, basicly saying if this =
> that do this otherwise do this. i have the if statement and stuff
> right i just need help with the compare.
>
>
>
> $slurp =~ /"defaultusername"="(.+)"/i;
> $usr = $1;
> print "printing the value of the test var: $usr\n";
> if ($file = $usr){
This is assigning $usr to $file and if $file ture then print. What you are
realy trying to do is string compare which would be eq. To do a numeric compare
reguires ==.
So
if ( $file eq $usr ) {
# true
}else {
#false
}
Wags ;)
> print "username: $file;
>
>
> -Nex6
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