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I get this message [: 10.0.10.21: bad number on this code

    [ "${saved_ip}" -eq "${used_ip}" ] && echo "good match"

Both variables have valid ip addresses in them.
Why does it think the variable content is a number and not text?
What am I doing wrong?

Thanks for your help