[Javascript] echo value padded with spaces?

[Skip Evans]

Hey all,

I have a login function that has been working fine 
for a very long time. All of a sudden (or at least 
for a reason I could not nail down) it began to 
fail to validate properly.

I had this on the PHP side when a user name 
password combination failed:

echo 'false';

And in the JS I simply did this:

if (ret=='false')
	alert('Invalid login')

But when I did an alert on the return I got this:

' false'

The echoed value 'false' is now coming through 
with space padded on the left side.

Can anyone explain this to me???

Thanks globules!
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Skip Evans
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608-250-2720
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