perl question

[Peter Murray]

--On Fri, Aug 22, 1997 7:09 AM -0700 "laura hudson"
<hudsonl at ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu> wrote: 
> if ($in {'user_inst'} = "internal")

This will always evaluate to true...'=' is the assignment operator.  '=='
is a numeric comparison operator; 'eq' is a string comparison operator.  So
what you probably wanted was 

  if ($in{'user_inst'} eq "internal")

But if you do that, the statement will always be false because you never
assign a value to "$in{'user_inst'}".  Replacing that with "$user_inst"
*may* solve your problem.


Peter
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