note 21583 deleted from language.operators.comparison by sniper

Note Submitter: aaron_hillyer@hotmail.com ---- c.hester@ukonline.co.uk wrote: "If your strings are identical but include a space at the end, a comparison fails to return true!" Believe it or not, this is a "feature" and is standard in every language that I've seen. Identical strings not only match each other but have the same LENGTH. Thus, "string" is never identical to "string " because the length of the latter is one more than the previous. This has never been a problem with me in any other language and I don't anticipate it with PHP (I'm just learning it, hence the reading of the manual). I always strip leading and trailing space automatically when a user inputs the value of a variable.