Didn't you get a warning from this code? 

$ perl -Mstrict -wE 'my $str = "[]"; say $str == "[]" ? 1 : 0'
Argument "[]" isn't numeric in numeric eq (==) at -e line 1.
Argument "[]" isn't numeric in numeric eq (==) at -e line 1.
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$ perl -Mstrict -wE 'my $str = "42"; say $str == "[]" ? 1 : 0'
Argument "[]" isn't numeric in numeric eq (==) at -e line 1.
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You're not seriously still running your code without warnings enabled, are you? While simultaneously trying, based on your last few questions, to increase your test coverage numbers?!


The way forward always starts with a minimal test.

In reply to Re: Equality of strings by 1nickt
in thread Equality of strings by ovedpo15

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