Equivilence not working

This is driving me nuts!

Look at this:

if(/Content-Type:\s*(.+)\/(.+);/) 
{
  $content = $1;
  $subtype = $2;
  print $content;  #this returns "multitype"

  print "1match $1\n" if $1 eq $content;
  print "2match $1\n" if $1 eq "multitype";
  print "3match $1\n" if $content eq "multitype";
}

If I run this, "1match multitype" is printed.  2 and 3 don't match.

The weird thing is that if I unpack $content, and "multitype" into arrays 
as hex, the arrays match perfectly.  There are no trailing strange 
characters or anything.

So what am I doing wrong here?  Any takers?

Thanks,

Paul.

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