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fair enough, both work.

As an update, string concatenation can be used in other situations to force scalar context so it is valid to mention that possibility. In this particular case, 0+ is perfect. However if the goal is only to count ";", tr is even better.

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Re^4: u+ fails to force scalar context to empty list assignment: +( () = ... )
by LanX (Saint) on Mar 12, 2019 at 01:24 UTC
    > fair enough, both work.

    Still different, your result is a string.

    Perl works hard to treat all scalar sub-types equally by operators, but I seem to remember edge cases where the internal type mattered and resulted in errors.

    No need to stringify a number.

    And a reader - at least me - would be confused.

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