comparison not working...help

[littleelmo]

I've been banging my head against a wall for hours trying to figure out what's wrong here.

I'm simply doing a comparison between two values and it's not working.

I've isolated this simple issue to this
little test.

if($session[title] == "[choose]")
echo "EQUAL";
else
echo "NOT EQUAL";

BUT when $session[title] DOES equal [choose] it's still returning NOT EQUAL.

I've check the type of both values and they are of type string. I've tried to replace the double quote around [choose] with single quotes but it doesn't matter.

I need a CLUE here! please help
What is the problem?

[[deleted]]

Examine the $session[title] very closely, because it looks like it does not contain what you think it contains. Print is out like this:

echo ">>".$session[title]."<<";

perhaps there are trailing spaces or newlines.

[littleelmo]

Vincent,

Based on your suggestion, it appears as if there is something in front of the variable.

I get:

[choose]<<

So, I am fixing the problem by using the
trim() function.

if(trim($session[title] == "[choose]")

Thanks for your help.