What Am I Doing Wrong?

[Mark Healey]

Here is an edited fragment of the problem code.

bunch of code...
..
..
..
$Falbum="Sleep in Safety";
$Talbum="45 Grave - Sleep in Safety";

#I'm not actually assigning these strings in the code but prints show
#that these are the values causing troubles.

..
..
if ($Falbum ne $Talbum)
{
do stuff;
}
else
{
do other stuff
}
..
..
..

For some reason stuff isn't done and other stuff is but $Talbum is cleared.

--
Mark Healey
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[Joe Smith]

Re: What Am I Doing Wrong?

Mark Healey wrote:
[color=blue]
> For some reason stuff isn't done and other stuff is but $Talbum is cleared.[/color]

Works for me.

linux% cat temp
$Falbum="Sleep in Safety";
$Talbum="45 Grave - Sleep in Safety";
if ($Falbum ne $Talbum) {
warn "Different: The two variables are not equal\n";
} else {
warn "They are equal\n";
}
linux% perl -w temp
Different: The two variables are not equal

You must have a typographical error somewhere.
You need to come up with some real code to demonstrate
the problem, and post that to comp.lang.perl. misc (not comp.lang.perl) .
-Joe

[octoberdan]

Somthing could have gone out of scope... I recomend you read this:

http://www.developer.com/lang/perl/article.php/3323421

It's a superb article and you would learn alot of usefull things.

mine:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

my $falbum;
my $talbum;

$falbum = "Sleep in Safety";
$talbum = "45 Grave - Sleep in Safety";

print "\$falbum = '$falbum'\n";
print "\$talbum = '$talbum'\n";

print "Therefor, ";

if ($falbum ne $talbum) {
    print "they aren't equal!\n";
} else {
    print "they are equal!\n";
}