[ale] Perl Equality

[Robert Coggins]

Hey all...

I have this script I wrote in cron to run every hour.  Most of the time 
the it works like I want it to.  Although there are some times that it 
will send me an email but everything looks like it is equal.  Do any of 
you have a suggestion as to why this is howing as eqal?  Thanks for the 
help!

-Rob

# Programmed by: Robert Coggins.
# This program is to check the external IP address of my system.
# If the IP is the same do nothing.
# If the IP is different email it and store new IP in a file

#!/usr/bin/perl
use LWP::Simple;

$WORK_PATH='/path/to/external_ip';
$EMAIL_ADD='anemail at address.com';
$EMAIL_FROM='from at address.com';
$EMAIL_REPLY='from at address.com';
$EMAIL_SUBJ='This is the current IP!';
$EMAIL_MESG='This is the current ip: ';

$file_cur = get('http://checkip.dyndns.org');
$file_cur =~ tr#a-zA-Z< >\t\n/:=##d;
open(infile, "< $WORK_PATH/theip");
$file_old = <infile>;
$file_old =~ tr#a-zA-Z< >\t\n/:=##d;
close(infile);

print $file_cur;
print $file_old;

if($file_cur eq $file_old){
  print "The ips are the same.\n";
}
else{

open(outfile, "> $WORK_PATH/theip");
print outfile $file_cur;
close(outfile);

open(SENDMAIL, "| /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -n") || die "Unable to open 
sendmail";
    print SENDMAIL "From: $EMAIL_FROM\n";
    print SENDMAIL "To: $EMAIL_ADD\n";
    print SENDMAIL "Reply-To: $EMAIL_REPLY\n";
    print SENDMAIL "Subject: $EMAIL_SUBJ\n\n";
    print SENDMAIL "$EMAIL_MESG $file_cur";
close(MAIL);
}