my $copy1b = '0' . $copy1;
      my $copy2b = $copy2 . $_;
      
      $n = ($copy1b | $copy2b);
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copying it literally into the debugger too

  DB<38> say (0 . "$_" | 1 . "1") for qw/0 2 4 6 8/ 
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The only fix is using |. and use feature 'bitwise';

  DB<39> use feature 'bitwise'; say (0 . "$_" |. 1 . "1") for qw/0 2 4
+ 6 8/ 
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> voodoo89

Yeah, now go back and sacrifice 89 more chickens to the god of golf ;-P

Er, Umm, no.

$ perl -le 'print(0 . $_ | 1 . 1) for qw/0 2 4 6 8/'
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Most probable reason you are seeing what you saw -> you did "use feature 'bitwise'" earlier in your debugging session. 'bitwise' forces plain | to numeric.

voodoo89 tybalt89 looks around for more chickens...

> Most probable reason you are seeing what you saw -> you did "use feature 'bitwise'" earlier in your debugging session. bitwise forces plain | to numeric.

There was no "use feature 'bitwise'" inside the debugger.

:~$ perl -de0

Loading DB routines from perl5db.pl version 1.77
...
  DB<1> say (0 . "$_" | 1 . "1") for qw/0 2 4 6 8/
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  DB<2>
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but the interactive debugger seems to automatically run under -E

E commandline
behaves just like -e, except that it implicitly enables all optional features and builtin functions (in the main compilation unit). See feature and builtin.

Cheers Rolf
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