Hello Monks,

I have a strange problem (may not be so strange for many of you - that is why I post it here!!) I have a CGI script that, picks the value of $bu based on the value of $j as per the logic below (checking for which bit is set in the number $j)

I run the code with $j = 65. That should give the value D. But, somehow, I find that the bitwise & returns true for all the values! Hence the end result is not good. 

my %bj = (64,'D', 128,'A', 256,'H');
foreach my $flag (keys %bj) {
    $bu = $bj{$flag} if ($flag & $job_type);
    cluck("business_unit: $bu);
}

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I tried running this code standalone, in a separate pl script and it works good. But somehow it does not work in the CGI(?)

Are there some CGI/run options that could disable the bitwise & ? Tried to google around, but did not find anything useful.

Can you please help me with this?

In reply to Bitwise & not working correctly in CGI script by solegaonkar

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