When you prepend a number with 0, perl interprets it as an octal value. Octal 222222 is decimal 74898. Octal 0222 is decimal 146. The '0222222' is turned into a number (from a string) and so therefore is effectively the same as 222222.

So your tests could be rewritten as: 

if (111111 > 222222){
  print "yes\n"
} else {
  print "no\n"
}

# prints 'no'

if (111111 > 74898){
  print "yes\n"
} else {
  print "no\n"
}

# prints "yes";

if (111111 > '0222222'){
  print "yes\n"
} else {
  print "no\n"
}

# prints "no";

if (111 > 146){
  print "yes\n"
} else {
  print "no\n"
}

# prints "no";

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NB: Thanks to the Programmer's Cheat Sheet for the conversions.

In reply to Re: When is 111111 greater than 0222222? by The Mad Hatter
in thread When is 111111 greater than 0222222? by Cody Pendant

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