note demerphq <p> Interesting. I wasn't aware of "0 but true" being special cased. But you did realize that strings matching <c>/^0E\d+$/</c> have this property too right? </p> <c> D:\>perl -lwe "my @b=(0,1); for (qw(0E0 1E0)) { print; print qq(Bool:),$b[!!$_]; print qq(0+:),0+$_; print $/; }" 0E0 Bool:1 0+:0 1E0 Bool:1 0+:1 </c> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-108447"> ---<br /> $world=~s/war/peace/g<br /> <br /> </div></div> 495975 496032