##
use strict ;
use warnings ;
sub test { return ('a','test') }
my $test = test() ;
my @test = test() ;
print ">>> $test\n" ;
print map "[$_]\n",@test ;
print $test == scalar(@test)? "Yepa!\n" : "Nope!\n" ;
####
$ perl test.pl
>>> test
[a]
[test]
Argument "test" isn't numeric in numeric eq (==) at test.pl line 11.
Nope!