Re^2: Converting a string to a real numeric value

Thanks!
What I learn from that is: if i am handling non-floating-point values, it's a bit more elegant and possibly a tick faster (one iteration less, 1-b vs 1-c) to use int(), otherwise the +0 trick isn't that much of a hack it seems to be.

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Re^3: Converting a string to a real numeric value - what's faster? by mwah (Hermit) on Sep 17, 2009 at 10:04 UTC
if i am handling non-floating-point values, it's a bit more elegant ... to use int() .. if it's worth the typed characters at all ;-) As you said before, Perl will convert the string into a number internally if the string isn't already converted (IV-Flag not set) and if the string is used in a numerical context. Of course, when using Perl-Guts (XS), you have to worry. regards mwa	[reply]