Sorry, for reposting - not sure that this message is on the list since
I posted it via Google services previously which might be not
correct...
I don't know if it's a right place to post my message but anyway...
I guess perltrap doc page should be updated regarding perl vs. shell
bevavior differe
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 12:29:58PM +0300, Alexei Alexandrov wrote:
> Sorry, for reposting - not sure that this message is on the list since
> I posted it via Google services previously which might be not
> correct...
>
I don't remember seeing the first message, so it probably didn't
get accepted
> Ooh. Interesting. Well spotted. I added this item to perltrap:
>
> =item *
>
> The shell's C uses "=", "!=", "<" etc for string comparisons and "-eq",
> "-ne", "-lt" etc for numeric comparisons. This is the reverse of Perl, which
> uses C, C, C for string comparisons, and C<==>, C C<< < >> etc
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 03:51:25PM +0300, Alexei Alexandrov wrote:
> Thanks. One correction: 'uses "=", "!=", "<" etc for string
> comparisons' should be 'uses "==", "!=", "<" etc for string
> comparisons'
Are you sure? man test shows:
s1 = s2 True if the strings s1 and s2 are identic
>
> s1 = s2 True if the strings s1 and s2 are identical.
>
> s1 != s2 True if the strings s1 and s2 are not identical.
>
> s1 < s2 True if string s1 comes before s2 based on the ASCII value
> of their characters.
>
> s1 > s2 True if strin
