Shell Programming and Scripting

oK, i know for sure that code = Y and var = N but no matter what this always prints ignore, never valid???????
if test "$code"="$var"
then echo "IGNORE"
else
echo "VALID" fi

any help would be great, i'm sure its something simple...been looking at this for too long THX>

Code:

if test "$code" = "$var"  
then echo "IGNORE" 
else 
echo "VALID" fi

you have to leave space before and after the equal sign.

"$code"="$var"

Here it will acts as a single string and since its length is greater than zero then test command is successful and thats why you get IGNORE always.

OMG THANK UUUU....unix doesn't usually like those spaces so that's what got me!! spent way too long on this, thanks again!!