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Re: Re: Checking whether a $var is a number

by blakem (Monsignor)
on Sep 06, 2001 at 02:21 UTC ( [id://110439]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Checking whether a $var is a number
in thread Checking whether a $var is a number

Interesting, it looks like this works, but they return 'inf' and 'nan' instead of the longer capitalized versions above. 
% perl -le "print 1 + 'NaN'"
nan

% perl -le "print 1 + 'Infinity'"
inf

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