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Is that a Perl feature or just because whatever the C function that turns strings into number is it likes the fact that it starts with a 0 and doesn't complain about the rest of the string? In which case "0 but" would be OK too?

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by tye (Sage) on Sep 19, 2000 at 22:22 UTC

    The Perl code that converts strings to integers specifically checks for "0 but true". "0 but True" will generate a warning in a numeric context, for example: 

      % perl -we "print 0+'0 but True'"
  Argument "0 but True" isn't numeric in addition (+) at -e line 1.
  0
  % perl -we "print 0+'0 but true'"
  0

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