[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Hodges) writes: > Do note that I realize I can check it. It's just that for no reason I > can quite define, my C background wants a null byte to be FALSE without > any special chicanery on my part when checking. I can live with the > fact it isn't going to be, it just seems odd to me.
Has this problem ever bitten you in Perl coding so far? I don't think I've ever seen a bug in code that turned out to be because of "0.0" being true, either; I'm sure someone can find an example, but it's extremely rare. -- Do you associate ST JOHN'S with addiction to ASIA FILE? - Henry Braun is Oxford Zippy