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Just want to give you some more extended info on this. Hope those are useful.

Although it is not your purpose here, Perl does support l-value functions. An example would be the substr function:
```
$str = "135";
substr($str, 1, 1) = "234";
print $str;
This should give you "12345";
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```

If you are not comparing numbers, but strings, then you should use 'eq', instead of '=='.

$str1 = "01";                                
$str2 = "1";
print "equal as numbers\n" if ($str1 == $str2);
print "equal as strings\n" if ($str1 eq $str2);
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In reply to Re: lvalue - howto fix? by pg
in thread lvalue - howto fix? by Anonymous Monk

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