String comparison using Selenium Ide

Hi all,

Can we compare strings?
for example:
There is a login page:
I have entered username say :XYZ
then once i click on login button:It opens another page which should display the text as "Welcome XYZ"
How can we verify the text after Welcome is username we entered at the time of Login by using selenium ide?

Waiting for the reply..

Thanks,
Shradha

Maybe this will help http://wiki.openqa.org/display/SEL/assertEquals