in reply to Re: Compare two strings of same length, character-by-character
in thread Compare two strings of same length, character-by-character

See also Bitwise-String-Operators for more background

And please note the effects of use feature 'bitwise' and especially use v5.28

(I seemed to remember that bitwise deprecated this behavior, but it's rather adding an extra operator ^. to avoid ambiguities.)

Cheers Rolf
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