On 4/18/06, John W. Krahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Chas Owens wrote:
> > On 4/18/06, Irfan J Sayed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > snip
> >>can anybody plz tell me what i am doing wrong
> > snip
> >
> > What you are doing wrong is making assumptions and not reading the
> > documentation. This is being compounded by your inexperience with
> > Perl.
> >
> > First let us tackle the Perl ignorance: true and false are not 1 and
> > 0. In fact, there is no one value for either true or false. The
> > definition goes something like this: the values literal zero (0),
> > undefined (undef), and empty string ('') are false and anything else
> > is true. Note that this means the string '0e0' is true even though it
> > is numerically equivalent to 0.
>
> Perl actually has four false values: 0, undef, '' and '0'. One being the
> number zero and another a string with a single zero character.
>
>
> John
> --
> use Perl;
> program
> fulfillment
Ah yes, I thought I was missing one. That is why I said "something like".
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