It is comparing them as strings but only after it has put them in the form
of numbers.
Ben
At 06:19 PM 7/2/01 -0700, David Rego wrote:
>Actually thinking about it, it is actually comparing it as strings except
>for rounding off (seeing that it is a numeric literal) and then realizing
>that it is a string comparison it converts back and finds them equal. (I
>did some research with the foll:
>
>if (0 eq "abc") {
> print '(0 eq "abc")'."\n";
>}
>
>if (9.0 eq "9.0") {
> print '(9.0 eq 9)'."\n";
>}
>)
>
>Btw I'm not sure whether this is the right forum to ask such questions.
>Would someone pls point me to where I can ask such questions, if so.
>
>Tks&Rgds
>
>Dr
>
>
>At 04:59 PM 7/2/2001, Ben Wheeler wrote:
>>That makes more sense (The other version produced no output as expected).
>>You are comparing 9.0 to 9 as numbers instead of as text. They will be
>>equal in that sense even though you are using the eq instead of ==
>>comparison operator.
>>
>>Ben
>>
>>At 04:17 PM 7/2/01 -0700, David Rego wrote:
>> >Darn I shouldn't have done this - my mistake guys. Sorry. :( (I gotta be
>> >more careful.)
>> >
>> >Actually:
>> >if (9.0 eq 9) {
>> >print '(9.0 eq 9)'."\n";
>> >}
>> >
>> >caused that printing. I guess that is the behavior of Perl and not
>>ActivePerl.
>> >
>> >At 04:04 PM 7/2/2001, Frank Novak wrote:
>> >>I don't see this behavior, same version of perl.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >>
>> >> From: David Rego
>> >>
>> >> Sent: Mon 7/2/2001 4:02 PM
>> >>
>> >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> >>
>> >> Cc:
>> >>
>> >> Subject: Newbie question
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Admittedly I'm not an advanced programmer in Perl, but I
>> >>
>> >>couldn't
>> >>
>> >> understand why:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> if ('9.0' eq '9') {
>> >>
>> >> print '("9.0" eq "9")'."\n";
>> >>
>> >> }
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> cause the printing of:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> ("9.0" eq "9")
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> in ActivePerl v5.6.1 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread build
>> >>
>> >>626.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Tks
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Dr
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> < http://www.Regos.net>
>> >>
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