Why is my if statement not working (bash - zenity)?

I am using an if statement to run a different response for each option selected in a yad GUI zenity fork.

For some reason the if statement works with some options and not with others!?

NOTE : I'm substituting '^' for ' in the example

opt=^yad --list --column="Option"  --column="Description" \
     1 "option 1" \
     2 "option 2
        <i> subtext </i>" \ 
     | cut -c 1^
echo $opt
if [[ $opt == 1 ]]
then
    echo 1
elif [[ $opt == 2 ]]
then
    echo 2
else 
    echo error

option one gives: 1 1

option 2 gives: 2 error.

The variable is being recorded right as is evident by the echo $opt output. I know it has something to do with the subtext, if I erase it the problem goes away, but as to why I have no idea.

Can anyone help me with a fix, or suggest a workaround?

Thanks for all of your help! This problem is really stumping me.

Solution

Thanks to abhishek phukan for the answer!

By using == the shell wanted to treat the variables as a string, -eq is normally used for integer operations and works better in this case. Why the subtext effected the answer i don't know.