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[19990603.008] Not a bug but did Perl really mean that?

From:
Nathan Torkington
Date:
March 20, 2000 20:08
Subject:
[19990603.008] Not a bug but did Perl really mean that?
Message ID:
14550.62671.888734.311035@prometheus.frii.com
Jeff,

You pointed out that a string consisting of \0 bytes isn't false,
and so it's hard to test for in Perl.  Solutions are:
  if ($mask =~ /^\0*$/)
and
  use IO::Select;

I've marked the bugreport as closed.

Cheers;

Nat

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