in reply to Is list member

Actually, that IS how you handle numeric values. Perl is absolutely typeless - meaning that it implicitly stringifies and numifies variables in the right context. Now, numification often gets you 0 which makes alot of things match where you want them not to. However, stringification will usually get matches properly, when comparing two numbers.

ps: Perl 6! $foo =~ @array

Cheers,
Erik

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Re: Re: Is list member
by Zaxo (Archbishop) on May 06, 2002 at 08:53 UTC

    Careful, there are unequal strings that are equal as numbers:

    $ perl -e'$c="10e0";$d="1e1";print $c == $d,$/'
1
$ perl -e'$c="10e0";$d="1e1";print $c eq $d,$/'

$ perl -e'$c=10e0;$d=1e1;print $c eq $d,$/'
1
$ perl -e'$c=10e0;$d=1e1;print $c == $d,$/'
1

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    Zaxo

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