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For good reasons operators in Perl do type conversions!

==, + - * and so on do numification so undef is considered 0

eq, . and so on do stringification so undef is considered empty string "".

Anyway using warnings you'll often get "Use of uninitialized value" messages.

I do not understand what your intentions are, but if you wanna test for undef use the designated functions defined or //

EDIT

Equality Operators in perlop

       Binary "==" returns true if the left argument is numerically equal to
       the right argument.
...
       Binary "eq" returns true if the left argument is stringwise equal to
       the right argument.

Cheers Rolf

In reply to Re: How come undef eq '' ?? by LanX
in thread How come undef eq '' ?? by tmharish

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