I have no idea why this doesn't work...
$tmp_dir and $dir are both strings 
if ($tmp_dir ne $dir) {
    print OUTPUTFILE "\n" . $tmp_dir . "\n";
    $dir = $tmp_dir;
}

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This gives a "isn't numeric in numeric ne (!=)" error, even though in "man perlop" is says: "Binary 'ne' returns true if the left argument is stringwise not equal to the right argument." What am I doing wrong? I've tried quoting them, making ne into !=, and then quoting that also. Nothing is working, and they _all_ give the same error. This isn't my box, but I do know that it's running Perl v5.6.0. Thanks for any help you can give me! :)

Justin

In reply to Really dumb question... ('ne' not working) by Apathy

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