String as condition

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I am trying to use input.text as condition .
My goal is to do nothing if text= "ignore" . Dunno how to do that
I tried
{% if states(`input_text.input_text_test') but as I understand this is not valid for srings

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{{ states('input_text.input_text_text') != 'ignore' }}
if your text is ignore it will return false and the condition will fail else it will return true and the condition passes