in reply to Disadvantage of using 'eq' operator to compare numbers.
If you want one to be equal to one, you want the numerical operators:
>perl -le"print 1 == '1.0' ?1:0" 1 >perl -le"print 1 eq '1.0' ?1:0" 0
If you want two to be less than ten, you want the numerical operators:
>perl -le"print 2 < 10 ?1:0" 1 >perl -le"print 2 lt 10 ?1:0" 0
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