in reply to Whatever happened to chomp?

zentara,
I am pretty sure this has nothing to do with chomp, but with Perl always trying to DWYM. Reading perldoc perlop I see that == will return true if the two arguments are numerically equal. Consider the following: 
perl -e 'print "yeah\n" if "p2p" == "f2b"'

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I am not sure if the behavior is well documented though.

Cheers - L~R

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Re: Re: Whatever happened to chomp?
by CombatSquirrel (Hermit) on Dec 14, 2003 at 15:24 UTC
    L~R:
    perl -e "use warnings; print qq{yeah$/} if 'p2p' == 'f2b'; print 'p2p'
+ + 0"
Argument "f2b" isn't numeric in numeric eq (==) at -e line 1.
Argument "p2p" isn't numeric in numeric eq (==) at -e line 1.
Argument "p2p" isn't numeric in addition (+) at -e line 1.
yeah
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    Non-numeric arguments are treated as 0 in numeric operations. == is a numeric comparision operator, its string equivalent being eq.
    I remember reading somewhere (maybe the camel or llama book) that numbers in string representations may have a newline character after them, which would explain why you don't need to chomp. I couldn't find the passage, though.
    Cheers,
    CombatSquirrel.
    Entropy is the tendency of everything going to hell.
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      You are thinking of '3bar' == '3foo'. It doesn't matter what is after the number, the numeric value of a string with leading digits is the decimal value of those digits. Strings without leading digits are equal to zero.

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      CombatSquirrel,
      The missing warnings and strictures were intentional. I was trying to demonstrate the extent Perl would go to try and DWYM. I guess I should have been more clear - thanks. 
      perl -e 'print "yeah\n" if "3p" == "f2b"'

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      Cheers - L~R
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