Forums Scripts & Popups what is wrong with this?

ok, i want my bot to be able to search for registered users, the bot already makes the ftpxsites.dat file fine..so i wrote this script to search, it works fine if the user isnt found, but when the user is found it doesnt .notice anything...whats wrong with it??

on *:TEXT:.searchmember*:*:{
{
/set %ftpusername $readini(ftpxsites.dat, $2, User)
if (%ftpusername == $null) {
.notice $nick member not found
}
elseif (%ftpusername !==$null) {
.notice $nick member was found
}