Chas Owens wrote:
> On 4/18/06, Irfan J Sayed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> snip
>>can anybody plz tell me what i am doing wrong
> snip
>
> What you are doing wrong is making assumptions and not reading the
> documentation. This is being compounded by your inexperience with
> Perl.
>
> First let us tackle the Perl ignorance: true and false are not 1 and
> 0. In fact, there is no one value for either true or false. The
> definition goes something like this: the values literal zero (0),
> undefined (undef), and empty string ('') are false and anything else
> is true. Note that this means the string '0e0' is true even though it
> is numerically equivalent to 0.
Perl actually has four false values: 0, undef, '' and '0'. One being the
number zero and another a string with a single zero character.
John
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