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in reply to perl not going to error path

I can't replicate the behaviour with "non numeric" equal to string, reference, or object:
#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; my $filename = __FILE__; my %offset_type = ( number => 1, string => 'abc', reference => { a => 23 }, object => bless do { \ my $object }, 'Class' ); for my $type (keys %offset_type) { my $offset = $offset_type{$type}; open my $FH, '<', $filename or die $!; eval { warn "$type without quotes\n"; seek $FH, $offset, 0 or die "Report error - $!"; warn "quoted $type\n"; seek "$FH", $offset, 0 or die "Report error - $!"; 1 } or warn $@; }

Update: Adding output:

number without quotes quoted number seek() on unopened filehandle at ./1.pl line 21. Report error - Bad file descriptor at ./1.pl line 21. reference without quotes quoted reference seek() on unopened filehandle at ./1.pl line 21. Report error - Bad file descriptor at ./1.pl line 21. string without quotes Argument "abc" isn't numeric in seek at ./1.pl line 19. quoted string seek() on unopened filehandle at ./1.pl line 21. Report error - Bad file descriptor at ./1.pl line 21. object without quotes quoted object seek() on unopened filehandle at ./1.pl line 21. Report error - Bad file descriptor at ./1.pl line 21.

Please, read Short, Self Contained, Correct Example on how to post helpful code.

If you need to check whether something is a number, use Scalar::Util's looks_like_number.

($q=q:Sq=~/;[c](.)(.)/;chr(-||-|5+lengthSq)`"S|oS2"`map{chr |+ord }map{substrSq`S_+|`|}3E|-|`7**2-3:)=~y+S|`+$1,++print+eval$q,q,a,