Your subject line is mildly misleading: this is behaviour of Perl's string-to-number conversion ("numification") independent of how it is triggered (which is by ... + 0 in your first code fragment, but by int(...) in the second one).

It is long-standing behaviour when Perl converts a string to a number for it to parse as much of the string as possible as a number, but then give a warning if there is any unparsable garbage beyond that:

% perl -wle 'print 0 + $_ for qw{ 123 123foo 12e3 12e3f4 inf inflight 
+}'
123
Argument "123foo" isn't numeric in addition (+) at -e line 1.
123
12000
Argument "12e3f4" isn't numeric in addition (+) at -e line 1.
12000
Inf
Argument "inflight" isn't numeric in addition (+) at -e line 1.
Inf
%

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.. so this all seems quite consistent to me. (I guess you ran your test without warnings enabled, which is always a risky thing to do - warnings can help shed light, even if not Inf light. :)

The special values are handled in Perl's source code by Perl_grok_infnan; reading through the comments there will give you a clue about the many platform-specific variants that Perl also supports.

In reply to Re: Weird behavior of numification? by hv
in thread Weird behavior of int() by cLive ;-)

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