Re^4: What is true and false in Perl?

[Anonymous Monk]

in reply to Re^3: What is true and false in Perl?
in thread What is true and false in Perl?

Only in the context of perl -e, as when run from a script, generates the same error (Argument "0 but true" isn't a numeric in addition (+) at line #. Also, both still print 0. And in both cases the attempt to add the string to 0 is ignored.

[AnomalousMonk]

Not quite sure what you are saying, but neither is behavior different when run as a 'script' versus on the command line via -e, nor is the arithmetic operation 'ignored'.

>cat 0_but.pl
use warnings;
use strict;

print 42 * '0 but true', "\n";
print 42 * '0 but zonk', "\n";


>perl 0_but.pl
0
Argument "0 but zonk" isn't numeric in multiplication (*) at 0_but.pl 
+line 5.
0

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