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My solution is wrong, but for different reasons. eq cannot replace ==:

$a = "01000";
$b = 1000;

printf "\$a eq \$b : %s\n", $a eq $b;
printf "\$a == \$b : %s\n", $a == $b;

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use strict; has no bearing on comparisons. What you are thinking of is use warnings;, which will warn about non-numeric values being compared with ==.

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Re^4: check if 2 values are equal
by clinton (Priest) on Jan 24, 2006 at 19:40 UTC
    Re use warnings rather than use strict - thanks for the correction.

    Likewise, you are right about the "0100" not being equal to 100, which is what I meant about being sure that the values are represented internally as numbers.

    So if you said: 

     $a = "01000";
 $b = 1000;
 print $a eq $b ? 1 : 0;
 > 0
 $a=$a+0;
 print $a eq $b ? 1 : 0;
 > 1

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