in reply to What are all the false values in Perl ((conditional, boolean, whitespace, unprintable characters)

I agree with swift -- print length($string) if you're not sure... and as for printing "unprintables": 
sub literal {
  require 'dumpvar.pl';
  &dumpValue;
}

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The dumpvar.pl library is, in fact, what the debugger uses when you tell it x $string.

$_="goto+F.print+chop;\n=yhpaj";F1:eval

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RE: Re: What are all the false values in Perl ((conditional
by swiftone (Curate) on Sep 23, 2000 at 00:34 UTC
    One can always make use of Data::Dumper if you would prefer modules to libraries.
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      Yes, by setting $Data::Dumper::Useqq to 1.

      $_="goto+F.print+chop;\n=yhpaj";F1:eval
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