[Jaey]

I was writing a fairly long perl script, when I encountered a problem I never expected. I am somewhat new to perl, so this may seem pretty obvious to you guys, but here's my problem.
If you have:

Code:
$a=<>;
if ($a==1)
{
print "hi\n";
}

and you enter '1' at the prompt, it prints out 'hi'.
But if you have:

Code:
$a=<>;
if ($a eq 1)
{
print "hi\n";
}

It doesn't do anything. So what exactly am I missing?

[Jaey]

Heh, I feel stupid.
chomp $a;

[Brass]

== is for a numerical comparison

eq is for a string comparison

The string "1\n" evaluates to the integer 1 (I think?). I think that using "==", almost any string would work with the exceptions of "" and "0", I think.