--- "A. Pagaltzis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible to force this in tandem? Ie. when one of the keys > has to be quoted, the other is always quoted also? Because Iâd > hate to see this: > > wanted: elbow > found: 'elbow ' > > For simple cases like this one itâs livable, but if the data gets > more complex, then comparing a raw string with a quoted one will > unnecessarily sprain peopleâs brains.
If string data was *always* quoted and numeric data never was (assuming it's really numeric), then most of the issues raised in this thread would go away. Cheers, Ovid -- Buy the book - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlhks/ Perl and CGI - http://users.easystreet.com/ovid/cgi_course/ Personal blog - http://publius-ovidius.livejournal.com/ Tech blog - http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/
