#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my @numbers = qw(022000 022300 022400 022800 023600 024700 024500 024900); foreach my $number(@numbers) { my $compRes1 = $number < 060000; my $compRes2 = $number < '060000'; print "For $number, result1 is $compRes1, result2 is $compRes2\n"; }