Hi Monks,

I'm using Net::FTP to great effect, however I've recently found some very strange behavior when I put a ftp method call into an if statement.

To wit:

The following method returns the value "1" when it is successful, as described in the perldoc, and evidenced in this snippet from the debugger... 

DB<2> print $ftp->cwd( $whole );
Net::FTP=GLOB(0x47dbf4)>>> CWD /web
Net::FTP=GLOB(0x47dbf4)<<< 250 CWD command successful.
1

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However, the same method call inside an if statement doesn't evaluate TRUE... which is not at all what I expected... 

DB<3> print if( $ftp->cwd( $whole ) );
Net::FTP=GLOB(0x47dbf4)>>> CWD /web
Net::FTP=GLOB(0x47dbf4)<<< 250 CWD command successful.

  DB<4>

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Why doesn't this if( $ftp->cwd( ... ) ); evaluate to true, if the value returned by $ftp->cwd is 1?

Thanks,

Chris

In reply to Net::FTP & if statement behavior by alienhuman

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