Thread: Really simple yet annoying problem!! -_-

Hey guys, I am very new to programming and I am in my first month of learning it at Uni,

I currently have this code that i'm working on to keep sharp, in my other programs it works fine but ever since I thought it had become second nature it doesn't produce the results I want.

Here is the code:

print "Shwmae!\n";
print "Welsh or English?!\n";
$answer = <STDIN>;

if ($answer eq "Welsh")
{

print "Diolch!!\n"
}

else
{
print "Thank You!!\n"
}

I am using PERL (btw).

Basically what happens is if I type in Welsh (<STDIN>) it will still produce "Thank You!!" as a result and clearly I am looking for the welsh translation.

What is going on guys?! this is really simple... haha

Cheers,
CGK30

Wild guess: When you type in "Welsh", the computer doesn't match it exactly to "Welsh" in the program. Maybe an extra (blank) character.

Try using == instead of eq.

or....perhaps it's adding a cr and/or lf at the end of the input. == is for numeric comparisons, so I get that one wrong. Too many languages in my head.