Re^2: What is the correct definition of False and Null in Perl? [non-decimal strings]

> Adding 0 to the variable makes Perl explicitly convert the string to a number:

However there is still confusion with some number formats like hexadecimal, because Perl only converts strings which represent integers or floats as decimals! (see perlnumber).

just run

$a="0x10"; 
++$a;
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and in Perl $a is now 1 in JS it's 17!

Cheers Rolf

UPDATE: OTOH JS obviously can't handle octals the same way:

repl> $a=010; ++$a
9
repl> $a="010"; ++$a
11
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Re^3: What is the correct definition of False and Null in Perl? [non-decimal strings] by flexvault (Monsignor) on Oct 09, 2011 at 13:20 UTC
I redid your code, dropping the quotes as: `$a=0x10; ++$a; print "$a\n";` [download] And the result was 17 (perl5.10.1 and perl5.12.2), which I think was what you wanted. P.S. I am amazed how many good comments have come from this question and the PM answers. Thank you "Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin	[reply] [d/l]