I read the posts from Hippo and LanX.
Instead of ignoring the errors warnings from the int() function, the code to handle the basic cases is not much (shown below). Now instead of seeing warning stuff printed to the terminal, you have some "place holder if statements" where you could put calls to some logging program, etc for the various cases. It does indeed sound odd to convert "ABC" to numeric 0. Note that your code would not convert a blank string " " to zero because that string is logically true.

If I were debugging this code, I would do an experiment by just taking the call to int() out. Then of course int() can't issue a warning. Presumably that would result in the same type of "non-numeric value used in addition" somewhere else in the code. I would be interested in that code to help me understand why this weird conversion of string to numeric 0 is needed in the first place? Sometimes the immediate runtime error is not the "real" error.

use strict;
use warnings;
use feature 'say';

say force2integer("");        # 0
say force2integer("  ");      # 0   # "   " is actually True
say force2integer("abc");     # 0
say force2integer("a10.5");   # 0
say force2integer(12.5);      # 12
say force2integer("13");      # 13
say force2integer("14XYZ");   # 0 (would be 14 with a warning)
say force2integer(undef);     # 0

# Return 0 if the input cannot be converted to an
# integer without a warning.
# Does not consider malformed floats like: 10.1.2.

sub force2integer
{
   my $val = shift;
   
   return 0 unless defined $val;
   return 0 if ($val =~ /[^0-9.]/); # imperfect float test
   return 0 if ($val eq "");        # null is not numeric 0!
   
   return int($val);
}

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In reply to Re: Argument spamming terminal by Marshall
in thread Argument spamming terminal by CougarXR7

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