Monks, I am reading a file looking for a specific flagged line. Sample 1 will loop through the entire file never activating the IF() statement. I fixed with sample 2 which stops reading the file at line 4 "testpoint\n". I do not understand why sample 1 doesn't work. I tried several variations including using chomp() . Am I missing something simple like a white space char?

sample 1:
while(<FILE>)
{    if($_ eq "testpoint\n")
    {    last;
    }
}

sample 2:
while(<FILE>)
{    if(/testpoint/)
    {    last;
    }
}

File contents being read:
<begin file>
This is a test file
data at the front of file
more test data
testpoint
data after the test
Last line
<end of file>
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Lane

*note: fixed typo eg => eq happened while simplifying example
also fixed the ? => " happened when cutting a pasting from open office

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