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in reply to truth in while condition

You haven't chomped the newline.

johngg@shiraz:~/perl/Monks$ perl -E '
$_ = qq{0\n};
say $_ ? q{True} : q{False};
chomp;
say $_ ? q{True} : q{False};'
True
False

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Cheers,

JohnGG

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