PowerShell truth evaluation statement (Fixed)

[goaliepride]

I'm new to powershell, but am trying to evaluate a statement and getting results I don't understand. I find that my variable = True. Then when I write an if statement to evaluate if something is "True" I get a yes answer.

 

PS U:\> $pathexists

True

PS U:\> if ($pathexists -eq "True") {"It was True"}

It was True

PS U:\> if ($pathexists -eq "False") {"It was also False!"}

It was also False!

PS U:\> $pathexists

True

 

Why in the world would ($pathexists -eq "False") wind up evaluating as if they were equal, when my variable is clearly True?

Edited March 2, 2011 by goaliepride
fixed

[goaliepride]

This wound up being a problem of statements I think. true/false should be written $true/$false, who knew something that looked like a variable was a constant?