On Jun 27, Kevin Meltzer said:
>On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 11:51:01AM -0400, Chas Owens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spew-ed
>forth:
>> On 27 Jun 2001 17:45:18 +0200, Jos Boumans wrote:
>> > > How do you mean?
>> >
>> > concider:
>> > if ('a' == 'b') { print "foo" } # this will print 'foo', seeing 'a' and 'b' both
>yield '1' in numeric
>> > context here.
>>
>> You mean 0 not 1 don't you?
>
># perl -wle 'print "a" ? "Yes" : "no";'
>
>They are true values, 0 is false.
Values that can not be converted to a numerical value have the value of 0
in numerical context. "a" is converted to 0 in numerical context, as are
"b", "foobar", "a1b2", and "-d3".
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