perl -MDevel::Peek -e '$x = 3; "$x"; $x += 0; print Dump $x' SV = PVIV(0x814e998) at 0x814d4ac REFCNT = 1 FLAGS = (IOK,pIOK) IV = 3 PV = 0x8162f50 "3"\0 CUR = 1 LEN = 4