On 9/3/07, Ovid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- "A. Pagaltzis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is it possible to force this in tandem? Ie. when one of the keys > > has to be quoted, the other is always quoted also? Because I'd > > hate to see this: > > > > wanted: elbow > > found: 'elbow ' > > > > For simple cases like this one it's livable, but if the data gets > > more complex, then comparing a raw string with a quoted one will > > unnecessarily sprain people's brains. > > If string data was *always* quoted and numeric data never was (assuming > it's really numeric), then most of the issues raised in this thread > would go away.
Define string data and numeric data. :-) IOW, is 0E0 string or numeric? Yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"