In this piece of code I make the mistake of evaluating if a string equals a numeric value. This is obviously wrong, but why am I still getting inside my if ? 
use strict;
use warnings;

if("test" == 0){
    print "in if";
}
else {
    print "in else";
}

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The output for this is: 
Argument "test" isn't numeric in numeric eq (==) at D:/eclipse/workspa
+ce/Tests/shorthand_if/stupid_problem.pl line 4.
in if

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It seems to me that if a statement is wrong, it should not evaluate to true, what am I missing here ?

In reply to Why is this evaluating to true? by pmarcoen

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