Re: Why is this evaluating to true?

[lidden]

in reply to Why is this evaluating to true?

The string "test" is zero when perl makes it numeric. I don't remember where that is documented but "test" is zero and e.g. "2test" is two.

[pmarcoen]

Aha ! Thanks, good answer !

[SuicideJunkie]

You can use that feature for less-magic numbers in quick scripts. Eg:

my $time = $minutes / '60 minutes per hour' / '8 hour workdays';