Strange ini / string format issue

[Popcorn]

I load two stringvalues from my inifile and compare them. The value in both items is "22:00".
I tell MMF2 to do something if the two values are equal. MMF2 does nothing...

I then put the two values into two edit boxes and compare the value of the edit boxes instead. MMF2 still does nothing when I run it.
When I manually erase the value of the second edit box, and type "22:00" in it, MMF2 does what it is supposed to do.
If I only changed the value if the first edit box, MMF2 still treated them as different.

So, what makes MMF2 treat "22:00" and "22:00" as two different strings? The second value seems to be in a different format. Is there some special formatting in the inifile I don't know about? Is there some way to convert the second value into plain text so that MMF2 will see that they are the same string?

[AyreGuitar]

Popcorn - Puzzling... Perhaps you have some whitespace in one of your strings? e.g. a space, tab, return or newline character.

[Popcorn]

That was my first thought also, but that's not it. The two strings seems totally identical.

[LB]

What does it look like in a byte-by-byte hex editor?