in reply to (ar0n) Re: I've never seen this syntax before
in thread I've never seen this syntax before

What exactly does `inverse' mean in perl? Is it only in terms of 0 and everything else? Or is there some mathematical inversion that could be harnessed? Like reciprocals etc. I'm hoping it's the latter, but I suspect it's the former...

--Psi
print(pack("h*","e4f64702566756e60236c6f637560247f602265696e676021602075627c602861636b65627e2")."\n");

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Re: So what does 'inverse' mean?
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 05, 2001 at 00:35 UTC
    If the operand is 0, a string beginning with "0", a null string, or undef the result is 1, otherwise the result is a null string.
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      It says in Merlyn, et al's Learning Perl that both '00' and '0.00' evaluate to a boolean value of 1. It doesn't matter whether a string begins with 0.
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