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Re^4: Numification of stringsby Marshall (Canon) |
on Aug 02, 2010 at 18:11 UTC ( [id://852511]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
I updated my post above: re: Also of note is that in Perl, a string that looks like a number is still a string until used in a numeric context. Feel free to suggest alternate wording for this sentence. These leading zero situations can happen when reading DB files of various formats, say from a split() or whatever.
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