> or u can use :
>
> if($password =~ /^howard$/)
> {
> ## logic goes here
> }
>
> ----------
> From: James Edward Gray II[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2003 8:58 PM
> To: deborah
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: beginner "if statement" question
>
> On Saturday, June 14, 2003, at 10:01 AM, deborah wrote:
>
> > 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') {
>
> = is Perl's assignment operator. This means set $password to 'howard'.
> I believe your were looking for == which is a logical comparison
> operator, but unfortunately, that still wouldn't do the trick. == is
> for comparing the equality of numbers, but you want to compare two
> strings. For that you need Perl's string comparison operator, eq. So
> to fix the line above try:
>
> if ($password eq 'howard') {
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> James
>
> > 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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