Re^2: why are hex strings not numbers?

Then why does the string "65" print out "ok"? I didn't eval or convert it first.

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Re^3: why are hex strings not numbers? by Anonymous Monk on Sep 26, 2016 at 22:14 UTC
Then why does the string "65" print out "ok"? I didn't eval or convert it first. Because 65 looks like a number but 0x65 does not. See perlnumber, http://perldoc.perl.org/perlapi.html#grok_number_flags (the meat of http://perldoc.perl.org/perlapi.html#looks_like_number, maybe even on truthiness You can always change this with overload::constant, Numification of strings	[reply]