in reply to So what does 'inverse' mean?
in thread I've never seen this syntax before

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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Re: Re: So what does 'inverse' mean?
by sierrathedog04 (Hermit) on Apr 05, 2001 at 13:30 UTC
    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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