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Smylers wrote: > Oh. I'd been assuming that quote marks indicated strings, and that, > while a string containing only digits could obviously be treated as a > number (as in Perl 5), it wouldn't be one without being provoked. Correct. > What about: > > $x = '0345'; > > Is that a number? Nope. A string (unless C<$X> is otherwised typed). > What about if the variable contains a line read from user input? As a > programmer I'd expect that to be a string You'd be right (unless, of course, the variable's storage type forced a coercion during the assignment). DamianThread Previous | Thread Next