At 02:30 PM 6/22/01 -0500, Nick Transier wrote:
>Does anyone know a way to make boolean comparisons between strings?
>For example, I want 'a' < 'b' to be true
'a' lt 'b'
>, but perl says 'a' == 'b' is true.
'a' eq 'b' is false
'a' == 'b' is true because each string is interpreted in a numeric context
as zero.
If you had enabled warnings (-w) it would have told you it was doing this.
Perhaps the FAQ should say: "Have you done -w and use strict?"
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Peter Scott
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