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 -- 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>