On Nov 26, Michael J Alexander said:
> Can someone tell me why this simple bit of code doesn't work? The
>"If" statement prints even when it's false.
>
>$x = 20;
>$y = 15.5;
>$z = .05;
>$a = $x+$y;
>
>print "a equals $a.\n";
>
>if ($a = 20) {print "a is equal to 20.\n";}
No one has told you yet: you should be using warnings (-w). Perl would
tell you:
Found = in conditional, should be == at -e line 1.
if you ran your code. You need to change your #! line to
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
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