Re: Passing logical operators on as content of scalar

[Laurent_R]

Really not sure whether this is any better, but you could use (string) eval, as shown here under the debugger:

  DB<1> $number1 = 2011;

  DB<2> $number2 = 2011;

  DB<3> $selectioncriterium = '=='

  DB<4> print "number1 is ", eval "$number1  $selectioncriterium  $num
+ber2" ? "" : "not ", "equal to $number2\n";
number1 is equal to 2011

  DB<5> print "number1 is ", eval "$number1  $selectioncriterium  7842
+"?  "" : "not ", "equal to  7842\n";
number1 is not equal to  7842

[gm40]

Thanks for all the help and suggestions. Everything is valuable and has enlightened me.