(elbie): Interpreting values alternately as $trings and Integers = confused response by Perl

Note that perl has two different kinds of comparison operators, one for strings (eq) and one for numerical values (==)

Minor point, but you should probably use $arr[0] == 12 to get a true numerical comparison. i.e. Drop the quotes.

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Re: (elbie): Interpreting values alternately as $trings and Integers = confused response by Perl by premchai21 (Curate) on Apr 15, 2002 at 01:09 UTC
I agree that the quotes should probably be removed, but for reasons of clarity -- that is, people are likely to glance at the code and accidentally interpret the == as an eq due to seeing quotes. == does "true numerical comparison" whether or not there are quotes there; the string gets converted to a number for the ==, and it DWYM.	[reply]