Why does my PHP string comparison fail?

I have the following snippet of code

if ($summary == "CFD funding Interest Paid" ||
    $summary == "Commissions" ||
    $summary == "Closing trades") {
    print $summary.",".$date.",".$reference.",".$description.",".$amount."<br>";  
}
else {
    print $summary."*<br>";
}

It outputs the following

Commissions*
Commissions*
Closing trades*
Commissions*
Closing trades*

How come the strings do not appear to be ma开发者_如何学编程tching?

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Perhaps you have leading whitespace? You could trim() that away to see if it helps?

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Use the strcmp(str1, str2) function instead.

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Add trim() before the if (), it removes unvisible chars like whitespace...

$summary = trim($summary);
if ($summary == "CF...