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in reply to Re: Alternative to bytes::length()
in thread Alternative to bytes::length()

Seems like ne "" is what I was looking for. :)

The !! construct won't work because certain strings with lengths can be false:

marvin@smokey:~ $ perl -le 'print "true" if !!"0";' marvin@smokey:~ $ perl -le 'print "true" if !!"1";' true

What did you mean by "premature", though?