Re: Bitwise & not working correctly in CGI script

[Jenda]

in reply to Bitwise & not working correctly in CGI script

print "19 & 16 = ", (19 & 16), "\n";
print "'19' & '16' = ", ('19' & '16'), "\n";
print "'19' & 16 = ", ('19' & 16), "\n";
print "19 & '16' = ", (19 & '16'), "\n";

The thing is that Perl did not convert the string (keys of a hash are ALWAYS strings, even if you used numeric literals when filling it in.) to a number and instead it evaluated a bitwise AND on the characters of the strings.

[Anonymous Monk]

What Jenda is trying to say, what perlnumber (and kennethk ) say, is that you should numify one of your arguments, so write

#~ if( 0+$flag & $job_type ){
#~ if( $flag & 0+$job_type ){
#~ if( 0+$flag & 0+$job_type ){
if( int $flag & int $job_type ){
    $bu = $bj{$flag} ;
    cluck("business_unit: $bu");
}

[solegaonkar]

Wow! That was right! The problem got solved when I numified both operands of & by adding 0. Thanks for your help!!