Simple text matching problem

Cant get md5 version of text to match

[frances]

I am trying to get php to match text with an md5 hash of the text stored in a text file:

$test = (trim(md5("SPECIALCODE12")) == $code)?"yes":"no";

But I get a false result whatever I do - even if I copy and paste the value of $code into the first half of the comparison. Also, if I echo out the two sides of the comparison, they look identical.

I'm sure this must be something really silly, but I can't think what.

I'ld really appreciate any help.

[dreamcatcher]

Hi frances,

Try removing 'trim' from the statement.

dc

[frances]

Thanks but that doesn't work. I only put in trim to see if that might be the problem.

[frances]

It does work with strcmp() - just in case anyone ever has similar problem. But I still dont understand why it wouldnt match before.

[eelixduppy]

You'd have to match the type, too. So like the following:

$test = (trim(md5("SPECIALCODE12")) [b]===[/b] $code) ? "yes" : "no";

[frances]

Again thanks. And it doesn't matter now but === didn't work either.