-lt is used in the shell. Perl uses common operators for numeric comparison $var 1 < 5000 (for strings, it uses $var gt "x", without the leading -).
See perlop for details.
BTW, your node title was not chosen luckily. See How do I compose an effective node title?.
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by choroba
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