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Athanasius
<p>Hello [fkento], and welcome to the Monastery!</p>
<p>From [doc://perlsyn#Truth-and-Falsehood]:</p>
<blockquote>
The number 0, the strings <tt>'0'</tt> and <tt>""</tt>, the empty list <tt>()</tt>, and <tt>undef</tt> are all false in a boolean context. All other values are true.
</blockquote>
<p>So, since the <i>string</i> “<tt>false</tt>” is none of 0, <tt>'0'</tt>, the empty string, the empty list, or <tt>undef</tt>, it is true in Perl.</p>
<p><b>Update:</b> Sorry, misread the question. The answer lies in the distinction between the operators <tt>==</tt> and <tt>eq</tt>. The former is for numerical comparison, the latter for string equality. See [doc://perlop#Equality-Operators].</p>
<code>
12:43 >perl -E "say (('false' == 'true') ? 'same' : 'different');"
same
12:43 >perl -E "say (('false' eq 'true') ? 'same' : 'different');"
different
12:43 >
</code>
<p>Hope that helps,</p>
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