Re: use strict;

[snowrider]

monks, sorry about not attaching my code here it is.

#!/usr/contrib/bin/perl -w

use strict;
my $a="5.0";
my $b="5";  
print "Are these variables equal as numbers? ",$a==$b,"\n";
print "Are the variables equal as strings? ",$a eq $b,"\n";
print "These variables are equal as strings\n" if($a eq $b);
print "These variables are equal numerically\n" if($a==$b);

snowrider

[arturo]

Looks ok to me ... are you sure there's a perl interpreter at the location specified in your '#!' line? Try issuing the following on the command line and see what you get: which perl

Philosophy can be made out of anything. Or less -- Jerry A. Fodor

[davorg]

When you're running perl script.pl you are using the version of Perl from your path. This seems to be fine.

When running ./script.pl you're using the version in /usr/contrib/bin/perl. Looks like that's Perl version 4. to confirm this type
/usr/contrib/bin/perl -v at your command line.

To fix it, find out which version of Perl is on your path by typing which perl and replace the /usr/contrib/bin/perl in your script with the results of that command.

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