"Randy W. Sims" wrote: > > On 3/27/2004 10:12 PM, John W. Krahn wrote: > > > > Did you know that $! is one of those "magical" variables that contains > > both a number and a string at the same time! AMAZING BUT TRUE! Here is > > an exerpt from the perl source: > > I regret to inform you that you are correct :-/ > > perl -MDevel::Peek -e '$e=$!=2;print Dump($!)' > > [snip] > > I don't know where I got it from that strerror was called in an > overriden stringization method, but I would have sworn to it until I saw > your message. In fact, I /still/ believe it to be true... just in some > other context: maybe a different variable? maybe it was ruby instead of > perl? I *know* I got that from somewhere...
Well, if you are still using Perl version 1 then it is only a number, but as of Perl version 2.0 up to and including the current version (5.8.3) it is a number and a string. Also note that the variable $^E has the same property. John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
